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Virgin and Child with Four Angels
is a small
oil-on-panel
painting by the
Early Netherlandish
artist
Gerard David
. Likely completed between 1510 and 1515, it shows the
Virgin Mary
holding the
child Jesus
, while she is anointed
Queen of Heaven
by two angels above her, accompanied by music provided by another two angels placed at either side of her. The painting is held at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art
in New York.
Painting:
Gerard David
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