The intimacy of everyday life between a mother and her child. A humanity accentuated by the hand of the Virgin who reaches out to the fire to warm up and then leans on the baby's bodice to warm it.
An interior that dictates the rules of Flemish painting that prefers the interior of the houses as the setting for their representations, often with a window giving to the outside world.
The tray and the basin make it possible to understand the perspective distortion to give greater depth and reality. Everything is tactile in this picture, it seems to be able to feel every texture under the fingertips.
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