File:Hans Memling - Virgin Suckling the Child - WGA14966.jpg

Original file (3,460 × 3,422 pixels, file size: 2.67 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

Summary

Hans Memling: Virgin Suckling the Child

Artist



Alternative names	Hans Memlinc, Jan van Memmelynghe
Description	Southern Netherlandish painter and drawer
Date of birth/death	circa 1433 date QS:P,+1433-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902	11 August 1494
Location of birth/death	Seligenstadt near Aschaffenburg (?)	Bruges
Work location	Cologne (?), City of Brussels, Bruges (1466–1494)
Authority file	: Q106851 VIAF: 36926265 ISNI: 0000000121006549 ULAN: 500005611 LCCN: n50013910 NLA: 35346391 WorldCat

Title

The Virgin Mary nursing the Christ Child

Object type

painting

Genre

religious art

Description

Nursing Madonna

Date

between 1487 and 1490

Medium

oil and gold on oak wood

Dimensions

diameter: 17.4 cm (6.8 in)

Collection

Private collection

Object history

Christie's New York 25 January 2012, Lot number: 23 (Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5529472 null sale (bought in))
Christie's London 8 December 2015, Lot number: 11 (Christie's, LotFinder: entry 5958386 withdrawn)

References

Audio: Hans Memling, The Virgin Mary nursing the Christ Child

Source/Photographer

1. Web Gallery of Art:

Image

Info about artwork
2. Christie's via ARCADJA auction results image
3. nordonart.wordpress.com painting

Other versions

After light cleaning 2014-15 (Christie's 2105 sale image)

Licensing

This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published (or registered with the U.S. Copyright Office) before January 1, 1929.

This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.

The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	14:04, 14 September 2017	3,460 × 3,422 (2.67 MB)	Trzęsacz	reworked with Gimp
	19:22, 11 July 2012	3,499 × 3,466 (2.72 MB)	Botaurus	more larger, source= http://nordonart.wordpress.com/2012/01/03/mixed-bag-at-christies-old-master-sale/
	19:09, 11 July 2012	1,029 × 1,021 (397 KB)	Botaurus	larger image and reframed, source= http://www.arcadja.com/auctions/en/memling_hans/artist/19440/
	06:57, 4 June 2011	956 × 948 (147 KB)	JarektUploadBot	{{Artwork \|artist = {{Creator:Hans Memling}} \|title = Virgin Suckling the Child \|description = \|date = {{other date\|between\|1487\|1490}} \|medium = {{Technique\|Oil\|oak panel