MASTER of the Lille Adoration
(active 1510-1530 in Antwerp)

The Holy Kinship

1520s
Oil on panel
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

In this fragment, which has been sawn down on both sides and at the top, Joseph, St Anne and the Virgin and Child are grouped around a dish of fruit and surrounded by several male members of the family. It is probably a fragment of a centre panel of a triptych, the wings of which have been lost. Formerly the painting was attributed to Dirck Vellert.