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The Virgin Seated on an Altar
Jean de Gourmont1520/40
- Attribution
- Jean de Gourmont French, 1506-1551
- Medium
- Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
- Physical dimensions
- Sheet, trimmed within platemark: 8.1 × 7.9 cm (3 1/4 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Mrs. Potter Palmer, Jr.
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Here the Virgin and Child—sitting atop a classical altar turned into a Christian throne—preside over an audience of awed shepherds. A luxuriously patterned cloth of honor with tassels softens the rigid architecture, spilling forward down the steps to the rapt audience.
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