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St Luke Drawing the Virgin
c. 1435–40 · Oil and tempera on panel · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
For Saint Luke · 18 October
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image 6.5×8 in on a 8×10 in sheet
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Saint Luke kneels with a sheet and a stylus, and his eyes lift past Our Lady, whom he is drawing. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston gives the tradition that Luke portrayed the Virgin from life, which is why painters' guilds took him as their patron. Rogier van der Weyden's Luke is not looking at his subject, and nor is she posing. She sits low before a throne under a canopy, nursing the Christ Child. The Vlaamse Kunstcollectie reads the throne as her queenship, and the stylus is silverpoint: the first mark, not the finished portrait. Boston places it probably in the Brussels chapel where the painters' guild held its services, and allows that the saint's face may be Rogier's own. Beyond the columns two small figures stand looking out at the river.
Sources: "After Rogier van der Weyden: Saint Luke drawing the Madonna," Vlaamse Kunstcollectie / Flemish Primitives · Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Rogier van der Weyden, 'Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin', 93.153. · Web Gallery of Art, 'St Luke Drawing a Portrait of the Madonna', Rogier van der Weyden, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston