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Painting of the Virgin Mary holding the nude infant Christ beside a tree, with red drapery and a hazy landscape behind them.

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The Virgin and the Child, Jan Sanders van Hemessen (1543), Museo del Prado. Via artnap.com

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The Virgin and the Child by Jan Sanders van Hemessen, dated 1543, shows a seated woman in a dark gown and red mantle leaning her head toward a nude infant who sits on her lap. A tree trunk rises behind them, and a hazy landscape with hills and a distant town opens to the right. The painting is held in the Museo del Prado.

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