Maria met Jezus
May one see it?
Unknown: the museum keeps its counsel
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
- Source
- The museum's own collection data
About the sculpture
The nude infant Jesus playfully draws his mother’s attention by pulling her bodice open. Mary’s bare breast refers to her role as ‘Virgo lactans’, the suckling virgin. The role of her divine motherhood became popular through Saint Bernard of Clairvaux’s wondrous vision in which he received a drop of milk from the Virgin’s breast.
Rijksmuseum
Particulars
- Accession number
- BK-NM-12996
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Rijksmuseum: the museum's own open data · fetched 7 days ago
- Image: Rijksmuseum — public domain
