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The Lucca Madonna
c. 1437 · Mixed technique on oak · Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main
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image 17.5×24 in on a 18×24 in sheet
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All editionsAbout this painting
Our Lady sits enthroned in a small room and feeds her Son, and the room is full of ordinary things: two small fruits on the sill, a glass carafe and a brass basin in the niche, a patterned carpet running to the floor. Four lions hold up the throne. Carol Purtle reads them as the Throne of Solomon, the Seat of Wisdom, and the carafe and basin as bridal purification. The Städel notes that the floor, walls and vault seem to carry on into our own space, and that the window is reflected in the carafe. Nobody knows who paid for it; Jan van Eyck made it for private prayer, and the name Lucca is no place of origin but Charles Louis of Bourbon, Duke of Lucca, who owned it. The Wisdom she is throne for takes the breast.
Sources: Städel Museum, Frankfurt, inv. 944 · Städel Stories, on the provenance and the naming · Carol J. Purtle, The Marian Paintings of Jan van Eyck (Princeton University Press, 1982), 110–121 · Journal of Historians of Netherlandish Art