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Madonna and Child with an Angel
(Renaissance Europe )
Images of the Madonna and Child enjoyed great popularity in the Italian Renaissance home. In this example, painted by an anonymous Florentine artist working in the 1490s, the Madonna tenderly supports the Christ Child as he stands on a ledge before her. In the lower right, an adoring angel offers a bowl of flowers; at the left, a window opens onto a hilly landscape where the hermit Saint Jerome is doing penitence before a crucifix. Farther in the distance is the Archangel Raphael with the young Tobias, commonly venerated as protectors of travelers and against disease.
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Provenance
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 36, as Fra Filippo Lippi; 1897 catalogue: no. 74, as Florentine School, around 1500]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Italy, Florence (Place of Origin)
Measurements
Painted surface sight H: 21 1/16 x W: 14 5/16 in. (53.5 x 36.3 cm); Surviving panel H: 23 9/16 x W: 16 7/16 x D: 1 1/8 in. (59.8 x 41.7 x 2.8 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.735