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GOES, Hugo van der: Portrait of a Donor with St John the Baptist

🖼 Portrait of a Donor with St John the Baptist, 1478-80
Wood
23.2 × 22.5 cm
Baltimore, USA

Soft light illuminates a kneeling donor beside St John the Baptist, rendered with meticulous Flemish detail and intimate scale. The painting exemplifies 15th-century Northern European devotional practice, merging donor portraiture with religious narrative to document personal piety and spiritual aspiration.

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