Francesco Trevisani, The Virgin sewing with the Christ Child, c. 1690-1700

1690

Medium

Oil on copper

Dimensions

38 × 31 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-149617

This exquisite depiction of The Virgin sewing with the Christ Child is a masterpiece by the Roman late baroque artist Francesco Trevisani and can be dated to about 1690–1700. It was painted for Trevisani’s leading patron Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni (1667 – 1740), whose emblem is displayed on the glass vase on the left of the scene. The painting’s high degree of finish and attention to detail is complemented by the copper support, and the beautiful fall of light through the window unifies the intimate domestic scene to make this one of the most refined and poetic works within the artist’s oeuvre. The composition exists in one other version, a painting today in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence.