Cornelia Cnoop

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The Virgin Mary, dressed in blue and red robes and crowned with a halo, is seated holding the infant Jesus, who is wrapped in white cloth. The Infant is pulling the robes away to expose Mary’s bare breast, while she looks down at him. They are seated in a park in a fifteenth-century Dutch city.

Virgin and Child

ca. 1520
Formerly attributed to Cornelia Cnoop, Virgin and Child, ca. 1520. Oil on canvas, 23.7 × 18 cm [central panel of larger triptych]. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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