Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Saints, Saints John the Baptist, Antony Abbot, Elizabeth of Hungary, a female saint, anonymous, c. 1350 - c. 1399

Title(s)

Virgin and Child Enthroned with Four Saints, Saints John the Baptist, Antony Abbot, Elizabeth of Hungary, a female saint

Object type

• painting

Object number

SK-A-1294

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘Mater Amabis Ora’
• inscription: ‘FLORENTYNSCHE SCHOOL XIVe EEVW GESCHENK VAN DEN HEER A. BREDIVS. 1886’

Description

Maria met kind en vier heiligen. Maria gezeten op een troon met het Christuskind op schoot. Op de voorgrond vier heiligen: Johannes de Doper, Antonius abt, Elisabeth van Hongarije en een vrouwelijk martelaar. In gotische gesneden houten lijst met opschrift.

Artist

• painter: anonymous

Place

Florence

Dating

c. 1350 - c. 1399

Physical features

tempera on panel

Material

• panel
• pear (wood)
• tempera

Measurements

height 105 cm × width 50 cm × depth 7.8 cm

What

• Madonna: Mary sitting or enthroned, the Christ-child in her lap (or in front of her bosom) (Mary sometimes represented half-length)
• John the Baptist; possible attributes: book, reed cross, baptismal cup, honeycomb, lamb, staff
• the hermit Antony Abbot (Antonius Abbas) of Egypt, also called the Great; possible attributes: bell, book, T-shaped staff, flames, pig
• the wife and widow of the Landgrave of Thuringia, and Franciscan Tertiary, Elisabeth of Hungary; possible attributes: beggar, cripple, fish, loaves, leper, model of church, pitcher, roses in lap, scald-head, three crowns
• female saints

Credit line

• Gift of A. Bredius, The Hague

Acquisition

gift 11-Jan-1886

Copyright

Public domain

• The Florentine paintings in Holland, 1300-1500, Marian Bisanz-Prakken, Hendrik Willem van Os
• Charlotte Wiethoff, 'De kunshandelaar Jacques Goudstikker (1897-1940) en zijn betekenis voor het verzamelen van vroege Italiaanse kunst in Nederland', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 32 (1981), p. 257.