Virgin Adoring the Christ Child with the Young St. John the Baptist

1490-1493 (Renaissance)

63.9 cm 94 cm 1.2 cm

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Against a lush landscape of grassy hills and rocky cliffs, the Virgin kneels absorbed in prayer before the Christ Child. Surrounded by rays of light, the child lies on the hem of her mantle and clasps a goldfinch between his hands. The goldfinch is a common allusion to Christ’...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 95, as school of Botticelli]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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