The Wedding at Cana (Gerard David)
The Wedding at Cana is an oil painting on wood by Gerard David, dated by the Louvre to 1500–1510. The panel is 100 centimetres high and 128 centimetres wide. It is in the Louvre's collection in Paris, under inventory number INV 1995.[1]
Subject and commission
The wedding banquet includes a praying donor, identified as Jean de Sedano, with his family. Sedano was a Castilian merchant established in Bruges. He probably commissioned the work, but its original destination remains uncertain. The Louvre describes it as a devotional memorial picture rather than a winged altarpiece, and suggests that the distant buildings may evoke Bruges.[1]
Collection and attribution
The painting was sold to the French royal collection in 1669 and exhibited when the Louvre opened in 1793. It was then attributed to Jan van Eyck. The attribution to David was proposed in the nineteenth century.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Musée du Louvre. Les noces de Cana, avec Jean de Sedano, son fils et son épouse. Collection record INV 1995 / MR 704, updated 10 September 2024.