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Madonna and Child  1450

by Robert Campin

The unprecedented realism and sense of solidity conveyed by Robert Campin's figures made the painter (ca. 1375-1444) one of the greatest 15th-century Netherlandish artists. His powerful, full-length depiction of the nursing Madonna and Child (now in Frankfurt, Germany) seems to have been the prototype for small, circular versions, such as this, used for private devotion. T...
Size: 
1 5/16 x 10 11/16 in. (3.3 x 27.1 cm)
Medium: 
oil on wood
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Walters Art Museum