The Madonna and Child

Details

Studio of Sandro Botticelli (Florence 1444/5-1510)
The Madonna and Child
tempera and oil on panel, a tondo
14 in. (35.5 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Giuseppe Volterra, Florence, until 1926, when purchased by
Senator and Mrs. Simon Guggenheim, New York, by whom gifted to the
Denver Art Museum, 1953.

Literature

R. Van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, Oxford, 1963, XII, p. 229, as 'school of Botticelli'.
R. Lightbown, Sandro Botticelli, Complete Catalogue, Berkeley, 1978, II, p. 153, under C67, as 'a related composition of a workshop picture'.

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Lot Essay

The present composition derives from a Botticelli prototype that is known from a studio production, rectangular in format, in the Galleria Colonna, Rome. In that painting, the Madonna is standing, head tilted forward, and the Child is turned outward, blessing. The horizontal lines of the architecture and window opening onto a landscape are also repeated here but softened by the circular format.
The present work and another tondo (Chaalis, Musée Jacquemart-André) are considered to be from the studio of Botticelli.

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