The Madonna and Child with Grapes
after Joos van Cleve (c.1480 - Antwerp 1541/51)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1500 - 1599
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
460 x 330 mm
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 436129
Caption
This early sixteenth century Flemish painting is surrounded by some of the finest woodcarving at Belton, in the chapel. That the Christ Child is sleeping, prefigures his death, and the grapes, which are the symbol of the wine of the eucharist, symbolise his blood. The other fruit is not easily distinguishable, but it is probably a gourd. God caused a gourd to grow to give shade to Jonah, who had survived being consumed by a whale, meant that it came to symbolise the resurrection.
Summary
Oil painting on panel, The Madonna and Child with Grapes after Joos van Cleve (?Kleve c.1464 - Antwerp c.1540). Madonna and child seated behind a table on which there is a bunch of grapes and a peach A wooded landscape can be seen through a window beyond on the right.
Makers and roles
after Joos van Cleve (c.1480 - Antwerp 1541/51), artist