Virgin and Child
c. 1500
- Medium
- oil on wood
- Dimensions
- 57.5 × 47 × 4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-110498
Madonna and Child appear in half-length, seated against a dark wall. The Child's body is covered in shadow as he looks over his shoulder at his mother. This painting was bought by James Jackson Jarves as a Leonardo. The landscape and features of the figures are similar to Leonardo's Madonna of the Rocks, and in typical Leonardesque fashion, the figures' heads incline slightly to the left. However, Virgin and Child was later attributed to a member of Leonardo's circle named Francesco Napolitano (active 1500) because of its resemblance to his Madonna and Child with St. Sebastian and St. John th…
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection, 1916.779
Registry history
- c. 1500 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
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