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Jan Mandijn
Saint Christopher and the Christ Childcirca 1550

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Oil painting, horizontal, with a bearded man and infant on a gold orb at center, surrounded by fantastical creatures, a severed head hanging from a tree, a cracked egg atop a tower, and a distant battle scene
Oil painting detail of a severed bearded head hanging inverted by its hair from a wooden post, with a hatchet and metal ring visible above, against a pale blue sky with distant landscape.
Oil painting detail showing a chaotic battle scene with fantastical figures in dark water and on land; a large pink-scaled wing dominates the upper left, a giant copper ring stands at center, armed figures with bows and spears cluster at right, and small nude figures struggle in murky water; dark, densely layered brushwork in the manner of early Netherlandish painting.
Artist or Maker
Jan Mandijn
1500, Haarlem - 1560, Haarlem
Title
Saint Christopher and the Christ Child
Place Made
Holland
Date Made
circa 1550
Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
Panel: 13 1/2 × 18 1/4 in. (34.29 × 46.36 cm) Frame: 19 × 23 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (48.26 × 59.69 × 3.81 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Maddow
Accession Number
59.48
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.
  • Heesch, Daan van. "Imagining Hieronymus Bosch in colonial Peru: foreign sources, indigenous responses." Simiolus: Netherlands Quaterly for the History of Art 39, no.4 (2017): 351-69.
  • Esguerra, Clarissa, and Michaela Hansen. Lee Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.
  • Esguerra, Clarissa M., Michaela Hansen, Katie Somerville, and Danielle Whitfield, editors. Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse. Melbourne: National Gallery of Victoria; Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2022.