Gerard David

1450–1523 · Northern Renaissance

Gerard David was an Early Netherlandish painter and manuscript illuminator known for his brilliant use of color. Only a bare outline of his life survives, although some facts are known. He may have been the Meester gheraet van brugghe who became a master of the Antwerp guild in 1515. He was very successful in his lifetime and probably ran two workshops, in Antwerp and Bruges. Like many painters of his period, his reputation diminished in the 17th century until he was rediscovered in the 19th century.

39 paintings

• Lamentation over the Body of Christ (c. 1500)
• Portrait of a Monk (early 1500s)
• The Nativity (c. 1485–90)
• The Deposition (1500)
• Judgement of Cambyses: The Arrest of Sisamnes (1498)
• Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1515)
• Judgement of Cambyses: The skinning of Sisamnes (1498)
• Madonna and Child (1540)
• Christ on the Cross (1515)
• Madonna and Child (1490)
• La Vierge et l'Enfant trônant en reine du ciel, entre deux anges musiciens (1493)
• The Marriage at Cana (1500)
• Triptych of the Sedano family (1492)
• Cervara Polyptych (1500)
• The Annunciation (1506)
• Christ Taking Leave of His Mother (ca. 1500)
• The Crucifixion (ca. 1495)
• The Nativity with Donors and Saints Jerome and Leonard (ca. 1510–15)
• The Nativity (early 1480s)
• The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (ca. 1512–15)
• Virgin and Child with Four Angels (ca. 1510–15)
• Virgin and Child (ca. 1520)
• The Adoration of the Magi (ca. 1520)
• Saint John the Baptist; Saint Francis Receiving the Stigmata (ca. 1485–90)
• Christ Blessing (ca. 1500–1505)
• The Virgin and Child with Saints and Donor (1510)
• The Adoration of the Magi (1515)
• An Augustinian Friar Praying (1515)
• Christ Nailed to the Cross (1481)
• Lamentation (1519)
• Three Legends of Saint Nicholas (1505)
• The Saint Anne Altarpiece: Saint Anthony of Padua [right panel] (c. 1500/1520)
• The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c. 1510)
• Enthroned Virgin and Child, with Angels (1490)
• The Virgin and Child crowned by two Angels (1520)
• The Virgin with the Child (1520)
• Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1515)
• Outer right wing of a triptych with a view in a forest (1550)
• The Crucifixion (1490)