Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

280. MS M.399, fol. 140v

ca. 1515

Da Costa hours
Illuminated by Simon Bening (1483/84–1561)

Ghent, Belgium
172 x 125 mm
MS M.399, fol. 140v

Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913), 1910

Virgin Mary: Visitation―Within a rocky landscape, the Virgin Mary, who is veiled and has a rayed nimbus, grasps the right hand of a veiled and nimbed Elizabeth. In the distance, a figure (Zacharias?) stands within the archway of a city gate. The scene is framed by a border with a landscape. Two male figures, one with his arm around the other's shoulders, stand in a road leading to a city gate. A dog walks along a road toward a small bridge crossing a river in front of a city gate.