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Source Description
Larger in size than most portrait miniatures, the Madonna and Child by Anna Maria Carew is a cabinet miniature, or a small work on vellum, enamel, or ivory that copies a full-scale oil painting. In this case the original painting was by Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck, and engraved by Paulus Pontius around 1630 shortly after it was painted. As a cabinet miniature, this work is somewhat unusual because of its religious subject and its simplicity. Cabinet miniatures tended instead to reproduce paintings of dramatic subjects and climactic moments in myths or religious stories. They could be hung on the wall or stored in elaborate and specially designed furniture, and they were often displayed in the smaller, more private rooms of a house.
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Document identity
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166198
label
Virgin and Child
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Source metadata
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166198
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object
title
Virgin and Child
description
Larger in size than most portrait miniatures, the Madonna and Child by Anna Maria Carew is a cabinet miniature, or a small work on vellum, enamel, or ivory that copies a full-scale oil painting. In this case the original painting was by Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck, and engraved by Paulus Pontius around 1630 shortly after it was painted. As a cabinet miniature, this work is somewhat unusual because of its religious subject and its simplicity. Cabinet miniatures tended instead to reproduce paintings of dramatic subjects and climactic moments in myths or religious stories. They could be hung on the wall or stored in elaborate and specially designed furniture, and they were often displayed in the smaller, more private rooms of a house.
date
c. 1662
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79996146
creators
57886
2443
genreSpecific
Portrait Miniature
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1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Diameter: 12.1 cm (4 3/4 in.)
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England, 17th century
accession
2008.148
Source extras
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watercolor heightened with gum on vellum, with gold
tombstone
Virgin and Child, c. 1662. Anna Maria Carew (British), after Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641). Watercolor heightened with gum on vellum, with gold; diameter: 12.1 cm (4 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Painting and Drawing Society of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.148
collection
P - British before 1800
inscriptions
inscription
signed at right center: "Maria Carew / fect"
didYouKnow
King Charles II awarded Carew an annual pension to copy in miniature from the royal collection.
citations
citation
Sotheby's (Firm). <em>Early British Drawings, Watercolours and Portrait Miniatures.</em> London: Sotheby's, 2008.
page_number
no. 101
citation
Korkow, Cory, and Dario Robleto. <em>Disembodied: Portrait Miniatures and Their Contemporary Relatives.</em> 2013.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 87
citation
Korkow, Cory, and Jon L. Seydl.<em> British Portrait Miniatures: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. 2013.
page_number
Cat. no. 18, pp. 98-102
creditline
Gift of the Painting and Drawing Society of The Cleveland Museum of Art
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2026-05-29 08:34:46.970000
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166198
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European Painting and Sculpture
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P - British before 1800
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watercolor heightened with gum on vellum, with gold
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female
male
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