St Luke Drawing the Virgin
The original, as its museum records it
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About this painting
Tradition holds that Luke drew the Virgin from life, which is why painters' guilds took him as patron. Rogier's Luke is not looking at her. His eyes lift past her face, toward something not there to see: not a sitter observed but a vision received.
Nor is she posing. The throne states her queenship; she sits on the floor before it, offering her breast to her son. Luke's stylus is silverpoint: the first mark, not the finished portrait.
The panel may have hung where the Brussels painters' guild worshipped. Boston allows that the saint may be Rogier himself.
Sources: "After Rogier van der Weyden: Saint Luke drawing the Madonna," Vlaamse Kunstcollectie / Flemish Primitives · Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Christopher D. Atkins, "Rogier van der Weyden, Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin," Smarthistory · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Rogier van der Weyden, 'Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin', 93.153.
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 2,401 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.