01 Work, Interpretation of the bible, The Master of the Antwerp Adoration's The Holy Family in a garden, with Footnotes - #210

The Master of the Antwerp Adoration (active Antwerp c. 1505-1530)

The Holy Family in a garden

Oil on panel, circular

23 5/8 in. (60 cm.) diameter, an approximately 1/8 in. (0.4 cm.)

Private collection

Sold for USD 173,000 in Jun 2014

This roundel represents the Holy Family in the enclosed courtyard of a Renaissance palace. In the foreground, Saint Joseph is dressed in a striking red robe with a vibrant-blue chaperon, practicing his trade as a carpenter as he shapes a wooden plank with an ax. To the right sits the Virgin Mary, majestically draped in a brilliant white veil that covers her blue dress and flutters in the wind. Her attention is completely devoted to the white cloth on her lap which she is embroidering. The Virgin is attended by two angels, attired in ornate clerical robes which often appear in the Master of the Antwerp Adoration's paintings. One plays a lute, while the other proffers a silver dish of fruit, a reference to the Rest on the Flight into Egypt. Beside this angel, the Christ Child attends to his father's work, while watchful of his mother. More on this painting

The Master of the Antwerp Adoration (active 1500 – 1520) was a Flemish painter in the style of Antwerp Mannerism, whose compositions are typically filled with agitated figures in exotic, extravagant clothes. His notname is from a triptych showing the Adoration of the Magi, acquired by the Antwerp Museum of Fine Arts.

He was identified by Max J. Friedlander as the same person as the Master of Linnich. Little else is known. Despite various attempts to match him to recorded names of artists of the time, a leading scholar described the question of his identity in 2007 as "still up in smoke"

Apart from the Antwerp triptych, another with the same main subject in the Oldmasters Museum in Brussels (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium) is by the master, and Peter Van Den Brink suggests a large triptych altarpiece on the basis of several fragments. Several other works have been attributed. More on The Master of the Antwerp Adoration

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