The Visitation
Date:
1640
Medium:
Oil on oak panel
Dimensions:
18 7/8 × 22 1/4 inches (47.94 × 56.52 cm)
Credit Line:
City of Detroit Purchase
Object number:
27.200
Two women greet each other in center of middleground. Elizabeth, the older woman at left, wraps her arms around Mary's shoulders. A black servant girl stands to the right of Mary and holds her cloak. At left a young boy helps Zacharias, the bearded old man, down the steps. At right a man leads a mule. In the left foreground a peacock, perched before a vine covered wall, watches over her young. A view of a distant city is in right background.
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