Maria met kind

The Master of the Legend of the Magdalene was an anonymous Flemish painter active in Brussels around 1480–1530, named after a series of panels depicting the life of Mary Magdalene. The Maria met Kind belongs to his production of devotional panel paintings for the Flemish and possibly Spanish export market — a commercially important sector of Antwerp and Brussels workshop production in the period. His Virgin and Child format directly continues the tradition of Roger van der Weyden and Memling while incorporating the slightly harder, more decorative quality of the generation after the great Flemish masters.

The Master of the Legend of the Magdalene follows Memling's compositional model for the Virgin and Child: the three-quarter view, the domestic interior detail, the landscape visible through a window. His technique is slightly more decorative and less psychologically penetrating than Memling's, with careful attention to brocade and architectural ornament.