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The Presentation in the Temple
c. 1470s · oil on panel · National Gallery of Art, Washington
For the Presentation of the Lord · 2 February
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An old man in a red cope holds a naked Child over an altar, on a white cloth, and knows Him. Simeon had been promised he would not die before he had seen the Christ, and the promise is kept in a pair of hands. Our Lady stands close in blue-green. At the left Saint Joseph carries a small wicker cage: the law let the poor bring turtledoves in place of a lamb, and the Lamb Himself lies on the altar cloth. The painter has no name. Hulin de Loo, as the Prado records, thought this group early Memling, a version of Rogier van der Weyden's Saint Columba altarpiece; doubts followed, and the National Gallery of Art now gives it to the Master of the Prado Adoration of the Magi, an anonymous Netherlandish painter. Simeon knew the Child at sight. Nobody yet knows the hand that painted him.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, The Presentation in the Temple, acc. 1961.9.28 · John Oliver Hand and Martha Wolff, Early Netherlandish Painting, NGA Systematic Catalogue (Washington, 1986), 155-161, repro. 157 · National Gallery of Art, artist record, Master of the Prado "Adoration of the Magi" · Museo Nacional del Prado, Master of the Prado 'Adoration of the Magi' · National Gallery of Art record, The Presentation in the Temple · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), Luke 2:25-35, from the project's own corpus at data/bible_drc.js · Douay-Rheims (Challoner), Leviticus 12:8
He also took him into his arms and blessed God and said
Luke 2:28 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)