The Virgin and Child with an Angel Making Music, Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen, 1545
etching, h 251mm × w 343mm More details
Vermeyen had a highly individual sense of imagination. His angel is no elevated, genderless celestial being, but a woman of flesh and blood, who has donned her finest gown. She is fitted out with sizeable swan wings. The infant Jesus is a brawny, lively, little fellow showing no intention of falling asleep to the song that the angel is strumming for him.
