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Portrait of a Monk in Prayer
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portrait of a Monk in Prayer

Description

The Bibaut diptych or Virgin and Child and Portrait of Willem van Bibaut is a circa 1523 devotional diptych assembled by the monk Guilielmus Bibaucus (1484–1535), whose portrait with praying hands forms the right panel. It is in a private collection but was on long-term loan to the Rijksmuseum in 2016.

Dimensions

Overall 13 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (33.7 x 24.1 cm); painted surface 13 1/8 x 9 1/2 in. (33.3 x 24.1 cm)

Movement / Period

Universal

Accession No

37.155

Curatorial Affinity Stream

Continuing the Universe of French Painter (ca. 1500)

Harmonious Works & Contemporaries