The Presentation in the Temple
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Simeon was promised he would not die before he had seen the Christ: the picture turns on one man knowing a baby by sight. Simeon holds the Child out naked over the altar, on a white cloth — the offering the law required for a firstborn, doubled as the offering he becomes. Turtledoves replace the lamb the poor could not bring.
Hulin de Loo thought this panel early Memling, after Rogier's Saint Columba altarpiece. Doubts followed; Martha Wolff named the painter for the picture in Madrid instead.
Simeon knew him at sight. The painter has never been recognised at all.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, The Presentation in the Temple, acc. 1961.9.28 · John Oliver Hand and Martha Wolff, Early Netherlandish Painting, NGA Systematic Catalogue (Washington, 1986), 155-161, repro. 157 · National Gallery of Art, artist record, Master of the Prado "Adoration of the Magi" · Museo Nacional del Prado, Master of the Prado 'Adoration of the Magi' · National Gallery of Art record, The Presentation in the Temple · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), Luke 2:25-35, from the project's own corpus at data/bible_drc.js · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), Leviticus 12:8
He also took him into his arms and blessed God and said
Luke 2:28 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), from the project’s own corpus at data/bible_drc.js
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 12,448 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.