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Preferred term

Madonna and Child Enthroned with S. Bernard and His Family  

Entry terms

  • Glorification of the Family of S. Bernard
  • Le Cellier Altarpiece
  • Madonna and Child Enthroned with S. Bernard and His Family (Le Cellier Altarpiece)

Note

  • Specific artist: Bellegambe, Jean I, b.ca.1470, d.1534-1536
  • Specific date: 1509
  • Specific location: New York (NY, USA), Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Specific medium: painting
  • Specific note: triptych

Scope note

  • commissioned by abbess Jeanne de Boubais for the Cistercian abbey, Flines-les-Raches (FRA); depicts S. Bernard with his family kneeling before the enthroned Madonna and Child; the abbess is shown at the right in the guise of the saint's sister, Humbeline, and for this reason wears the black Benedictine habit; the exterior wings depict the lactation of S. Bernard; found in the farmhouse of Le Cellier, former granary of the abbey of Clairvaux, Colombe-le-Sec, 1861

Notation

  • 293514
  • 293515

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URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/HTR-MFG9D6QW-M

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