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The Virgin and Child is an oil painting of around 1520 by the Flemish painter Gerard David now in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.^[1] It uses a Virgin in the same pose as in works by David now in New York, Washington and Madrid. However, where those three works use the pose to portray the Rest on the Flight into Egypt, the Rotterdam work instead uses the background landscape to represent the "hortus conclusus" or 'closed garden' of the Song of Songs. It also adds white lilies to symbolise Mary's virginity.^[2]

References

^ Mª Ángeles Piquero López. "El Descanso… del Museo del Prado" (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-06-14.
^ "David, Virgin and Child". Museum Boijmans. Retrieved 2017-06-14.

Gerard David

Paintings

Adoration of the Shepherds (1490)
Triptych of the Sedano family (c. 1495)
The Judgement of Cambyses (1498)
The Line of Saint Anne (c. 1500)
Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Lisbon) (c. 1501–1520)
The Baptism of Christ (c. 1502–1508)
Cervara Altarpiece (1507)
Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Washington, D.C.) (c. 1510)
Virgin and Child with Four Angels (c. 1510–1515)
Agony in the Garden (c. 1510–1520)
Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Antwerp) (c. 1515)
Rest on the Flight into Egypt (Madrid) (c. 1515)
Rest on the Flight into Egypt (New York City) (c. 1515)
Adoration of the Kings (1515–1523)
Lamentation (1515–1523)
Virgin and Child (c. 1520)

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