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Quinten Metsys

45 works

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Painting of Saint John the Baptist standing in an arched niche, holding a lamb on a tray, in muted ochre tones.

Quinten Massijs - Saint John the Baptist, 1511, 247

Saint Christopher wades through a river carrying the Christ Child, with a hermit in a cave and a moonlit landscape beyond.

Saint Christopher

1490

Renaissance banquet scene with a severed head on a platter, a seated ruler, a woman in pink gown, and musicians above.

Quinten Massijs - Beheading of John the Baptist, 1511, 246

Painting of a nude man in a cauldron over a fire, tended by two executioners, with a crowd and walled city behind.

Quinten Massijs - The Martyrdom of Saint John, 1511, 248

Panel painting of the Virgin and Christ Child with an elderly woman and young John the Baptist before a river landscape.

Virgin and child with Elizabeth and John the Baptist

1520

Mary embraces the dead Christ, her cheek against his head, with three crosses on a hill in a rocky landscape behind.

Quinten Massijs - Pietà, 565

Triptych with Lamentation of Christ in the center, a banquet scene left, and an execution scene with a rider right.

Altarpiece of the joiners' guild

1511

Man weighing gold coins on a balance beside a woman reading a book at a green table in a wooden room.

The Moneylender and his Wife

1514

Four men in dark hats crowd together, one holding a quill over an open book, while another laughs in a red cap.

The purchase agreement

1515

Painting of Christ wearing a crown of thorns, bound and bare-chested, presented to a crowd of agitated onlookers in an ornate

"Christ presented to the People."

1518

Half-length portrait of a man in a red cap holding a book, with a river, castle and bridge landscape behind him.

Paracelsus

1650

Painting of an elderly man in a red hood leaning toward a young woman in a white headdress, with a figure peering from a door

Uneaqual couple

1500

Painting of mourners lowering the dead Christ onto a white cloth, with three crosses on a rocky hill behind.

Quinten Massijs - The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, 1511, 245

Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the sleeping infant Christ, with an older man in a red turban and fruit on a ledge.

Holy Family

1500

Virgin and Child flanked by two saints in rich robes before a gold brocade hanging in an arched interior.

The Virgin and Child with Saints Barbara and Catherine

1515

Oil painting of a group around a green table with an elderly couple, coins, goblets and a young man in a pink cap.

Unequal Marriage

1525

Virgin Mary in a gilded niche kisses the Christ Child, with cherries, grapes, an apple and a landscape window.

The Virgin and Child

1520

Seated man in dark robe and fur collar holding a rolled paper, with books on a shelf behind him.

Pieter Gillis

1517

Painting of a young woman with a covered jar in her hands, framed by a Gothic arch with a town and hills behind her.

Saint Mary Magdalen

1514

Painting of the dead Christ supported by a grieving woman in green, with two men in red behind and a cross above.

Descent from the Cross

1550

Christ in grey robe raises a whip in a Gothic temple, driving money-changers out as coins scatter across the floor.

Christ Driving the Money-changers from the Temple

1520

Half-length portrait of an elderly woman with a patterned headdress, white veil, and blue bodice against green background.

The Ugly Duchess" Alternative title(s): An Old Woman ('The Ugly Duchess')

1513

Woman in red velvet robe with mirror and gilded jar before a marble ledge and mountain landscape.

Saint Mary Magdalene

1520

Painting of the Virgin in a red mantle kissing the infant Christ, seated in a Gothic niche with landscape views.

Madonna Enthroned

1520

Virgin Mary in a red mantle holds the infant Christ, who touches her chin, before a landscape with trees and a pewter bowl.

Virgin and Child

1520

Triptych with an angel and kneeling man, a central Holy Family scene with many figures, and a bedside scene in red.

Triptyque de la confrérie de Sainte-Anne à Louvain

1509

Painting of a grotesque figure with a rooster, feathered hat and staff, finger raised to lips, on a dark background.

An Allegory of Folly

1550

Panel painting of Saint Anne, Virgin Mary and Christ Child before a golden Gothic gate with a dove and angels.

Paneelschildering "H. Anna te Drieën" op hout, omgeving Quinten Matsijs, eind 15e eeuw

1475

Quinten-Metsys Nar-met-houten-lepel

1525

Painting of Christ in a blue robe and crown of thorns carrying a cross, surrounded by mocking soldiers before a walled city.

Christ Carrying the Cross

1510

The Virgin in prayer

Painting of the Crucifixion with Christ on the cross, grieving women at the base, a castle and landscape behind.

The Crucifixion

1515