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Mary, who is very richly dressed, is holding the Christ child above the altar; Joseph is at her side. Simeon is also in the room, along with some women, one of whom has a basket with two doves in it. The painting comes, together with five others of the same group (P-1254-P-1259), from the Hieronomite monastery of La Sisla (Toledo).
Excepting some variants, such as the window opening onto a landscape or the face of the Virgin, this painting reproduces the composition of an engraving by Martin Schongauer, which accounts for its aesthetic links with productions from the region of Alsace and the Upper Rhine. Like the Master of La Sisla, other painters active in Spain in the late 15th century also drew inspiration from the prints
