The Belgian galleries : being a history of the Flemish school of painting, illuminated and demonstrated by critical descriptions of the great paintings in Bruges, Antwerp, Ghent, Brussels and other Belgian cities (1912)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · Boston : St. Botolph Society · leaf 348
GerardDavid. Under a rude shed, supported by pillars, wherean ox and ass are conspicuous, the Virgin is seatedwith the Infant on her lap. On her right kneels theMagus from the Orient kissing the right arm of thechild; behind him is St. Joseph, a portly figure.Opposite the Virgin kneels the European… … Brussels 263 turban and holding a vase of carved ivory. Behindthem stand numerous other persons and in the back-ground others are seen on camels or horseback andbearing banners. A shepherd and his flock are onthe eminence beyond the wall and stairs, and a dis-tant city and blue mountains are seen…
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