# Virgin and Child, in Hans Memling

Hans Memling painted this in about 1485, aged about 50. It is now at the Art Institute of Chicago.

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## The work

- Date: c. 1485
- Medium: Oil on panel
- Dimensions: Framed: 41.1 × 33.4 cm (16 3/16 × 13 1/8 in.); Framed: 63.9 × 91.8 × 7.4 cm (25 1/8 × 36 1/8 × 2 7/8 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.1050
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Hans Memling](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/hans-memling), Netherlandish, c. 1430–1494

Memling, born in Germany, probably trained in Brussels with Rogier van der Weyden before settling in Bruges in 1465, where he became the city’s leading painter.

4 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [Hans Memling's contemporaries](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/contemporaries-of-hans-memling?hang=748) (8 works)
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- [15th-century Netherlands](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/15-netherlands?hang=748) (12 works)

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