Editing Gerard David (section)

==Works==
[[File:Rothschild Prayerbook - Crop2.jpg|thumb|300px|''Virgin and Child on a Crescent Moon'' in the ''[[Rothschild Prayerbook]]'', {{Circa|1500}}–1520]]
The works for which David is best known are the [[altarpiece]]s painted before his visit to Antwerp: the ''Marriage of St Catherine'' at the National Gallery, London; the triptych of the ''Madonna Enthroned and Saints'' of the [[Palazzo Rosso (Genoa)|Brignole-Sale collection]] in [[Genoa]]; the ''Annunciation'' of the Sigmaringen collection; and above all, the ''Madonna with Angels and Saints'' (usually titled ''The Virgin among the Virgins''), which he donated to the [[Carmelite]] Nuns of Sion at Bruges,<ref>"Flemish and German masterpieces from the National Gallery". National Gallery, London, 1920. 169</ref> and which is now in the [[Rouen]] museum.<ref>Campbell, 20</ref>{{sfn|Konody|1911}}

Only a few of his works have remained in Bruges: ''[[The Judgment of Cambyses]]'', ''The Flaying of Sisamnes'' and the ''Baptism of Christ'' in the [[Groeningemuseum]], and the ''Transfiguration'' in the Church of Our Lady.{{sfn|Konody|1911}}

The rest were scattered around the world, and to this may be due the oblivion into which his very name had fallen; this, and the fact that, some believed that for all the beauty and the soulfulness of his work, he had nothing innovative to add to the history of art.<ref name="met" />{{sfn|Konody|1911}}
[[File:Gerard David - The Marriage at Cana.jpg|thumb|300px|left|''[[The Marriage at Cana (Gerard David)]]'', {{Circa|1500}}. [[Louvre]]]]

Even in his best work he had only given newer variations of the art of his predecessors and contemporaries. His rank among the masters was renewed, however, when a number of his paintings were assembled at the seminal 1902 [[Gruuthusemuseum]], Bruges [[Exposition des primitifs flamands à Bruges|exhibition of early Flemish painters]].{{sfn|Konody|1911}}

He also worked closely with the leading [[manuscript illuminator]]s of the day, and seems to have been brought in to paint specific important miniatures himself, among them a ''Virgin among the Virgins'' in the [[Morgan Library]], a ''Virgin and Child on a Crescent Moon'' in the ''[[Rothschild Prayerbook]]'',<ref name="Release">{{cite web|title=Release Announcement |url=http://www.christies.com/about/press-center/releases/pressrelease.aspx?pressreleaseid=6809 |publisher=[[Christie's]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213233031/http://www.christies.com/about/press-center/releases/pressrelease.aspx?pressreleaseid=6809 |archive-date=13 December 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> and a portrait of the Emperor Maximilian in Vienna. Several of his drawings also survive, and elements from these appear in the works of other painters and illuminators for several decades after his death.<ref>T. Kren & S. McKendrick (eds), ''Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript Painting in Europe'', Getty Museum/Royal Academy of Arts, pp.&nbsp;344–365, 2003, {{ISBN|1-903973-28-7}}</ref>

Less known but also of high quality are the works of David found in Spanish public collections. [[Museo del Prado|The Prado Museum]] in Madrid owns a table "Rest on the flight into Egypt" resembling the one in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp. The Prado also holds another two Works by the painter, one of them only attributed.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.museodelprado.es/coleccion/artista/david-gerard/8f80636c-b720-4d00-977c-c9ec49b99c69?searchMeta=gerard%20david|title=David, Gérard – Colección – Museo Nacional del Prado|website=www.museodelprado.es|access-date=4 November 2019}}</ref> Another one of the Spanish capital's Museums, [[Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum|The Thyssen-Bornemisza]] holds a "Crucifixión"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/david-gerard/crucifixion|title=The Crucifixion|website=Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza|language=en|access-date=4 November 2019}}</ref> from 1475.