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The Tree of Jesse
c. 1500 · oil on panel · Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
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Jesse sleeps on the grass with his head on his hand, and the tree grows out of him. The Rijksmuseum reads it as Christ's family tree: the branches are filled with the kings of Israel, King David among them with his harp, and at the top Our Lady is enthroned with the Christ Child on her lap, an angel at either shoulder. Isaias wrote that “there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root”: here the root is an old man asleep and the flower is a Child. Below, a nun in white kneels at the foot of the tree with a rosary in her hands, and a walled garden closes the ground behind her. The painter worked in Haarlem around 1500, in the circle of Geertgen tot Sint Jans. Every branch is a generation that waited for Him, and we wait with them.
Sources: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, SK-A-3901 · data/bible_drc.js
And there shall come forth a rod out of the root of Jesse, and a flower shall rise up out of his root.
Isaias 11:1 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)
The Record
The original, as its museum records it
Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.
The file this print is made from
| Artist | Circle of Geertgen tot Sint Jans (Haarlem, c. 1500) |
|---|---|
| Date | c. 1500 |
| Museum | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam |
| Accession | SK-A-3901 |
| Medium | oil on panel |
| Dimensions | support: height 89.8 cm × width 60.6 cm |
| Sheet sizes | 8×10 in, 11×14 in, 16×20 in, 18×24 in |
| Held by | Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam · SK-A-3901 the museum’s record |
|---|---|
| Source file | iiif.micr.io |
| Licence | Public domain (Rijksmuseum, Public Domain Mark 1.0) |
| Master | 4,202 × 6,337 px, the file our printer receives |
| Chain | Taken from iiif.micr.io; held as our print master. |
The sheets
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 6,337 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.