- Title:
- The Virgin and Child with Saint Peter and Saint Paul
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Early Netherlandish
- Brief description:
- The Virgin, holding the infant Christ, sits on a marble throne with a luxurious material stretched across it -- a cloth of honour, something often hung behind medieval royalty. Two saints stand with them, and particular symbols tell us who they are. On the Virgin's right is Saint Peter, a key peeping out from beneath his green robe. On the Virgin's left is Saint Paul, the sword by which he was martyred leaning against the arch behind him. He holds out a delicate flower to Christ: a carnation. Carnations or pinks were known in northern Europe as 'nail flowers' because their scent resembles cloves, which are shaped like the nails driven into Christ's body when he was crucified. So this little flower may allude to the Passion (Christ's torture and crucifixion).
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1867-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1867
- Date - latest:
- 1867
- Associated concept:
- religious imagery
- Associated concept:
- Virgin and Child
- Associated concept:
- carnations
- Associated concept:
- Virgin Mary
- Associated concept:
- St Peter
- Associated concept:
- Christ in Majesty
- Associated concept:
- St Paul
- Credit line:
- Bought, 1867
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 2/940/692/310/mid_N-0774-00-000035.jpg
- Current reproduction location:
- 1/739/57/190/mid_N-0774-00-000030.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 68.80
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 51.60
- Form:
- None
- Material:
- oil on wood
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- Baltic/Polish oak
- Object name:
- Picture; Early Netherlandish
- Object production date:
- probably 1460s
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1460
- Date - latest:
- 1469
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1450-99
- Object production person:
- Dirk Bouts
- Person's birth date:
- 1400
- Person's death date:
- 1475
- Object production place:
- Netherlands
- Other number:
- NG774
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0FRM-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG774
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-03VS-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng2774
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Sir Charles Lock Eastlake
- Owner:
- Elizabeth Rigby, Lady Eastlake
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- Gothic
- Style:
- early Renaissance
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: Early Netherlandish School
- Reference details:
- 13-14
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Early Netherlandish School
- Reference details:
- 16-17
- Reference note:
- Previous catalogues
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 70
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: The Fifteenth Century Netherlandish Paintings
- Reference details:
- 67-71
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: Early Netherlandish School
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Les primitifs flamands. I. Corpus…, 5, Le Musée National du Louvre, Paris
- Reference details:
- 1.48-53
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Linear Perspective in Flemish Painting and the Art of Petrus Christus and Dieric Bouts
- Reference details:
- 150-1
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Early Flemish Artists and Their Predecessors on the Lower Rhine
- Reference details:
- 276
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- A Popular Handbook to the National Gallery Including, by Special Permission, Notes Collected from the Works of Mr. Ruskin
- Reference details:
- 1.272-8
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 43-4
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- reference
- User's reference:
- La Collezione Zambeccari nella Pinacoteca nazionale di Bologna
- Reference details:
- 77, 90
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Die altniederländische Malerei
- Reference details:
- 3.109
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- reference
- User's reference:
- Early Netherlandish Painting
- Reference details:
- 3.62
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery, London
- Reference details:
- 1.38-42
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Old Masters and Modern Art: The National Gallery, the Netherlands, Germany and Spain
- Reference details:
- 28-9
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Early Flemish Paintings in the Renders Collection at Bruges
- Reference details:
- 78-9
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery with Biographical Notices of the Painters: Foreign Schools
- Reference details:
- 147
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- An Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 34
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Flowers and Fruit
- Reference details:
- 20-5
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Sir Charles Eastlake and the Victorian Art World
- Reference details:
- 282
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Dirk Bouts: Schilder van de Stilte
- Reference details:
- 118
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- reference
- User's reference:
- The National and Tate Galleries
- Reference details:
- 39
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- reference
- User's reference:
- The German and Flemish Masters in the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 52
- Reference note:
- Select bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Pictures in the National Gallery
- Reference details:
- 271-2
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- reference
- User's reference:
- Die Entwicklung des Dirk Bouts
- Reference details:
- 111-2
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- User's reference:
- Dirk Bouts, seine Werkstatt und Schule
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- reference
- User's reference:
- Opere d'arte nel palazzo Marullo di Castellaci a Ragusa inferiore
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- User's reference:
- A Picture by Rogier van der Weyden and One by Dieric Bouts
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- User's reference:
- The Identification of Red Lake Pigment Dyestuffs and a Discussion of their Use
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- La "Madone au trône arqué" et la peinture brugeoise de la fin du Moyen Âge
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- Select bibliography
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- reference
- User's reference:
- Un eco castellano de la Madonna del trono arqueado de Dieric Bouts
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Review: M. J. Friedländer, Die altniederländische Malerei, Vol. 3, 1925
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- Select bibliography
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- reference
- User's reference:
- Heaven on Earth: The Religion of Beauty in Late Victorian Art
- Reference details:
- 78
- Reference note:
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Letter from Sir Charles Eastlake to Sir Henry Layard: 30 December 1864
- Reference details:
- fols 393-393v.
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Eastlake Notebooks
- Reference details:
- 13
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- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- From painting to pattern : inspiration from Renaissance paintings in the National Gallery : featuring original prints and captions from Sydney Vacher's 1886 publication Fifteenth century Italian ornament : chiefly taken from brocades and stuffs found in the National Gallery.
- Reference details:
- Ill. (p. [46]); ill. (detail) (p. [47])
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Albrecht Bouts (1451/55-1549) / Valentine Hendericks.
- Reference details:
- p. 90
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Merchants, princes and painters : silk fabrics in Italian and northern paintings, 1300-1550 /Lisa Monnas.
- Reference details:
- Ill. fig. 160 (p. [145]); ill. (detail) fig. 162 (p. 147); ill. (detail) fig. 315 (p. 281)
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Fifteenth-century Italian ornament : chiefly taken from brocades and stuffs found in pictures in the National Gallery, London /by Sydney Vacher.
- Reference details:
- Ill. (detail) plate 30
- Reference type:
- reference
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