Mary of Burgundy - The Phoebus Foundation

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Mary of Burgundy

With Koen Fillet and Jan Dirk Baetens, Assistant-Professor of nineteenth-century art at Radboud University Nijmegen.

A forgotten master, a duchess in a gesture of compassion. Henri Leys does not evoke the past to remember it, but to understand it.


Henri Leys, Mary of Burgundy Distributing Alms, 1858. Historical scene depicting Mary of Burgundy giving alms to the poor and children, set against a late medieval cityscape with towers and timber-framed houses, painted in a restrained, narrative style.
Henri Leys, Mary of Burgundy Distributing Alms, 1858

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