 She has her lips parted in a slight smile while she helps the Christ Child drink from a glass with red wine, a symbol of Christ's future suffering and blood and the Eucharist.Characteristic of Netherlandish painting of this period are the jewel-like colours and the details of the Virgin's costume and brocade pillow in the foreground.The pose of the "Holy Family" in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (c. 1518–20) is quoted from Jan van Eyck's "" of c. 1435 (Städel, Frankfurt).