Beschreibung:

The Virgin and Child, miniature on a leaf from an illuminated Book of Hours, on vellum [southern Netherlands (probably Bruges), first decades of sixteenth century] single leaf, 124mm. by 95mm., with a large miniature of the Virgin in a blue robe, her hair held back by a delicate jewelled headband, offering her breast to a white-haired Christ-Child, the child clothed in a diaphanous robe picked out with hairline white brushstrokes, all within a border of flowers and insects on a liquid gold ground, verso blank, slight cockling, small marks to Virgin’s face, tiny flakes in places, and edges of leaf perforated (perhaps from being stitched into a later devotional volume), else excellent condition, framed