Works by Gerard David
60 works · 87 msGerard David became the leading painter in Bruges when Hans Memling died in 1494, and behind some of his calm holy figures he painted woods and fields leaf by leaf, when landscape was still new in northern art.
From Oudewater, David formed his early style in Haarlem under Albert van Oudewater, moved to Bruges in 1483 and joined the Guild of Saint Luke there a year later. In Bruges he followed Memling more closely than any other master. In The Rest on the Flight into Egypt the Virgin sits on a rock while the Child picks at a bunch of grapes and Joseph swings a long stick at a tree behind them. In another version she nurses the Child, and the family appears again, tiny, on a road through the woods.
Most works below are religious paintings. The Judgement of Cambyses, of 1498, is harsher: a judge is seized in one panel and flayed on a table in the other, before a crowd of onlookers. He gave the Virgin among the Virgins, which includes his self-portrait of 1509, to the Carmelite nuns of Sion in Bruges.
Sources: Wikidata, Wikipedia, National Gallery of Art, Groeningemuseum, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
