Christ Presented to the People
c. 1480
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
51.9 × 34.8 cm (20 7/16 × 13 11/16 in.); Framed: 58.2 × 40.7 × 3.9 cm (22 7/8 × 16 × 1 1/2 in.)
Classification
oil on panel
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
16293
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
This is a rare example of a surviving 15th-century painting from the northern provinces of the Netherlands (present-day Holland). This region had fewer centers of artistic production than the more populous southern Netherlands, and it also experienced substantial destruction of artworks during the iconoclastic outbursts of the mid-16th century. The few surviving panel paintings, as well as illuminated manuscripts, from this region are often characterized by an earthy realism. Here the artist was...