Madonna and Child

ca. 1510 (Renaissance)

59 cm 40.3 cm 1 cm

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In this intimate image for a domestic interior, the Madonna is represented as a humble mother with her breast exposed, ready to nurse the Christ Child. She gazes downward with a melancholic expression, as if aware of her son's future death at the crucifixion. Around Christ's n...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1897 catalogue: no. 227, as Bernardino Luini]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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