Gaspard de Crayer

  • The Virgin and the Jesus Child
  • The Virgin and the Jesus Child with the Saints Domenica, Antoine, Augustin, Monique, Dorothée and Barbe

  • (c. 1638 - 1648), oil-base paint on fabric
  • 106.3 x 152.4 in. (270 cm X 387 cm.)
  • Musée du Louvre
  • 488 x 700 (82 KB)

Editor’s Note:

Crayer's works are found routinely in the churches and museums of Brussels and Ghent. And his popularity extended beyond these cities where there is scarcely a country chapel in Flanders or Brabant that cannot boast of one or more of his canvases.

Here is a close up of the pig above:
pig