Master of the Embroidered Foliage

Virgin and Child in a Landscape
Artist	Master of the Embroidered Foliage
Year	circa 1490
Medium	oil on panel
Dimensions	83.8 cm × 60.3 cm (33.0 in × 23.7 in)
Location	Philadelphia Museum of Art
Accession	2518
Website	Museum page

The Master of the Embroidered Foliage (active c. 1480 – c. 1510) is the Notname for an Early Netherlandish painter or a group of painters who worked out of Bruges and Brussels.

In 1926 the German art historian

, Edinburgh; these also show a very similar Virgin and Child, but against somewhat different backgrounds.

The Clark Art Institute conclude their investigation of the "Virgin and Child in a Landscape" paintings as follows: "Our analysis, based on laboratory study and consideration of fifteenth-century workshop practices, demonstrates that these panels were all produced between 1482 and the early 16th century not by one but by several artists, perhaps sharing a common template for the main figures. Unless further conclusive evidence comes to light, however, we will continue to attribute the paintings to the Master of the Embroidered Foliage, while acknowledging that this is a catch-all name referring to a number of painters active in Brussels and Bruges in the late 15th century."^[1]

See also

• Aert van den Bossche

Gallery

• 
  Nursing Madonna, oil on cradled panel, c. 1400s.
• 
  Portraits de Barbe de Croesinck et Louis Quarré en donateurs, oil on panel, c. 1480, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille.
• 
  Virgin and Child in a Landscape, oil on panel, c. 1492–1498.

References

External links

• Master of the Embroidered Foliage at Artcyclopedia
• List of attributed works and their location, as documented by the Centre for the Study of the Flemish Primitives
• Media related to Master of the Embroidered Foliage at Wikimedia Commons