225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016. Just a short walk from Grand Central and Penn Station
Book of Hours
Netherlands, ca. 1410-1420
MS M.1073 fol. 10v
Virgin Mary and Christ Child: Type, Suckling -- Virgin Mary, emanating rays, crowned, with right breast bared, sits before turf bench and holds in her lap nude infant Christ Child, nimbed, nursing (suckling), all in mandorla.
Miniature enclosed in fluted frame with quatrefoils at corners, within an outer frame of decorated bands, with ivy-rinceaux ornament extending into margins.
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