Madonna and Child

late 1450s (Renaissance)

51.4 cm 73.7 cm 3.2 cm

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The Madonna holds the Christ in a tender embrace beneath a starry sky and before an elaborately-patterned gold cloth of honor hanging like a curtain behind them. The figures look down as if seeking direct eye contact with the devotees who would have originally knelt in prayer...

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Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., Munich and New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [listed in Zeri as A. S. Drey of Munich and New York]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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