The Marriage at Cana (Gerard David)

The Marriage at Cana is a panel painting in oils by Early Netherlandish painter Gerard David, dated to 1500-1510.

[1] It shows the Marriage at Cana, one of Jesus's miracles described in the New Testament.

The middle-aged couple kneeling at either side are clearly donor portraits, but several other figures are probably portraits of their family members: the young man kneeling at the front, the boy behind his father, the cleric (a Dominican or Augustinian friar) outside the window, and some (possibly all) of the figures seated at the table, except for Christ and the Virgin Mary, who are shown with halos.

The richly-dressed bride wears red, and has her hair displayed at full-length, something that respectable women rarely did in public, except at weddings.

The painting thought to have been commissioned by Jean de Sedano (d. 1518), a Spanish merchant settled in Bruges.