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Madonna in a Garland of Flowers
c. 1616–1618 · Eichenholz (oak wood) · Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen — Alte Pinakothek, München
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image 12.8×11 in on a 14×11 in sheet
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All editionsAbout this painting
Our Lady holds the Christ Child upright in a dark niche, and putti hang a garland of flowers around them both. Jan Brueghel the Elder painted the flowers, Rubens the Madonna and putti, as the Alte Pinakothek confirms; the black frame within the frame recalls the custom of garlanding the Virgin's images as a sign of reverence. The museum reads the white lily as purity and the Immaculate Conception. The Museumspädagogisches Zentrum notes that the flowers keep no single season: snowdrops, earliest in the year, stand beside the hollyhocks of summer, and the insects are painted at their real size. Technical study found reserves in the four corners, one for each putto; Rubens widened the oak with two outer planks about twenty-five centimetres wide, and the four became eleven. Heaven needed more wood.
Sources: Picture-within-picture format (black frame, cord) references the custom of garlanding images of the Virgin as a sign of reverence; also confirms Rubens painted Madonna/putti, Brueghel the garland · MPZ Digital (Museumspädagogisches Zentrum Bayern), 'Von Tulpen, Lilien und Grashüpfern' · Der Tagesspiegel, 'Coworking der Alten Meister' · Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek, 'Rubens, Brueghel and the Madonna in a Garland of Flowers'.