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By Hans Memling circa 1490
Oil on oak panel, 29,2 x 22,5 cm
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid

Based on the research of David Hockney and Charles Falco it seems probable that Memling used an optical divice to project this image on to the wooden panel it was painted on. (see Lawrence Weschler) This would then mean that both this rug and pitcher actuall existed, Since we know that Memling painted this pitcher fom another perspective in Virgin and Child Enthroned see below we can assume that the rug must have existed as well.

This painting is on the reverse side of a slightly older work Portrait of a Young Man circa 1485-90 in te Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid

Flower Still-life on Memling Gul Rug c. 1490 Oil on oak panel, 29,2 x 22,5 cm Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid

Detail Virgin and Child Enthroned 1480s Oil on oak panel, 81 x 55 cm Staatliche Museen, Berlin

Virgin and Child Enthroned

Picture from Web Gallery of Art

http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/m/memling/3mature2/21virgi.html

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Thanks and best wishes,

J. Barry O'Connell Jr.

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