Art, literature & history
The Virgin and Child Seated at the Foot of a Tree
1522
- Dating
- Exact year
- Medium
- Engraving
- Dimensions
- Plate: 4 3/4 × 3 3/8 in. (12 × 8.5 cm) Sheet: 4 7/8 x 3 7/16 in. (12.4 x 8.7 cm)
- Collection no.
- 1991.1167
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jan Gossaert. The Virgin and Child Seated at the Foot of a Tree. Jan Gossaert; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1991. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Virgin and Child Seated at the Foot of a Tree — Jan Gossaert. 1522.
Medium: Engraving. Dimensions: Plate: 4 3/4 × 3 3/8 in. (12 × 8.5 cm) Sheet: 4 7/8 x 3 7/16 in. (12.4 x 8.7 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1991.
This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.