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The Virgin and Child with Four Holy Virgins
This painting is an ode to chastity. The Virgin sits in an enclosed garden, a symbol of virginity, surrounded by four other virgins (‘virgo inter virgines’). From attributes on their necklaces, they are identifiable as Saint Catherine with a wheel and sword, Saint Cecilia with an organ, Saint Barbara with a tower and Saint Ursula with a heart and arrow.
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/11F622
- http://iconclass.org/11HH(CATHERINE)
- http://iconclass.org/11HH(CECILIA)
- http://iconclass.org/11HH(BARBARA)
- http://iconclass.org/11HH(URSULA)
- http://iconclass.org/41A635
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Publisher
- Rijksmuseum
Subject
- http://iconclass.org/11F622
- http://iconclass.org/11HH(CATHERINE)
- http://iconclass.org/11HH(CECILIA)
- http://iconclass.org/11HH(BARBARA)
- http://iconclass.org/11HH(URSULA)
- http://iconclass.org/41A635
Type of item
- painting
- Art of painting
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Public Domain
- Publiek Domein
Creation date
- c.1495 - c.1500
Place-Time
- fourth quarter 15th century
Places
- Northern Netherlands
- Noordelijke Nederlanden
- urn:rijksmuseum:thesaurus:RM0001.THESAU.3671
Provenance
- ? Norbertine Koningsveld Convent, Delft (demolished 1572);{Van Luttervelt 1952, pp. 59-62.} …; ? estate inventory, Frisian Stadholder’s Court, Leeuwarden, 1731, the cabinet, no. 20 (‘Een schilderije met verscheyde figuuren, dat men meent te zijn ’t huuwlijk van St. Cathrina’);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer II, 1974, p. 400, no. 342.} ? estate inventory, Frisian Stadholder’s Court, Leeuwarden, 1764 (same text as in the 1731 inventory);{Drossaers/Lunsingh Scheurleer III, 1976, p. 44, no. 330.} ...; first recorded in the museum in 1801 (‘Eenige heilige maagden spelende met het kind Jezus, door een ouden Meester’);{Coll. cat. 1801, p. 50, no. 106.} on loan to the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 2004-10
Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.9034
- SK-A-501
Extent
- height 123.1 cm
- width 101.1 cm
Format
- panel
- oil paint (paint)
Language
- nl
Is part of
- collection: paintings
- collectie: schilderijen
Providing country
- Netherlands
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2014-05-27T20:16:50.979Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2018-03-17T14:38:13.244Z