[Magdalen] Art Question

[ME Michaud]

Here’s some info (part of an altar piece)

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1975.3
-M


On Sunday, November 4, 2018, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> O ye of wide-ranging knowledge....I have a question that perhaps you can
> answer. I have come across a charming early Renaissance painting I would
> love to know more about, particularly the name of the painter. It is called
> "The Naming of John" and features on one side three ladies standing, one
> (Elizabeth. perhaps?) who holds a swaddled but unbabylike infant and is
> pointing at him...she also looks very tired, which is why I wonder if she
> us the mother. Behind her stands another older woman dressed in dark
> clothing, possibly the midwife, and beside her, dressed in pink, looking at
> the baby and smiling in a bemused way, is another, younger woman (perhaps
> Mary....did she stay with Elizabeth until John was born?). Sitting in front
> of them and writing industriously on a strip of parchment (in Latin, no
> less!) is Zacharias, dressed in a red robe with a pink headdress.  The
> artist is listed as "Witz, K" with no further details.
>
> Does anyone know anything about the painting or the artist? I would assume
> it to be German or Flemish, and judging from the clothing, late 14th or
> early 15th century.
>