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| Artist | Botticelli, Sandro (Italian painter and draftsman, born 1444 or 1445, died 1510) |
| Previous attributions | Previously attributed to school of Botticelli, Sandro (Italian painter and draftsman, born 1444 or 1445, died 1510) |
| Title | Virgin and Child |
| Date earliest | probably about 1500 |
| Date latest | probably about 1530 |
| Material | oil(?); tempera(?) on panel |
| Measurements | 60.9 x 43.1 cm |
| Description | The type of picture to which this painting belongs is known as Madonna lactans. Although it does not lack a sweet tenderness in its portrayal of mother and child, an attribution to Sandro Botticelli himself cannot be sustained. The work might be by a studio assistant or a follower of this Florentine master of the Renaissance who perfected the technique of tempera painting at a time when oil painting was in the ascendant and gave his saints a humanity new to Florentine painting. |
| Subject | figure; religion (Virgin and Child, Madonna lactans) |
| Collection | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums): The Burrell Collection |
| Current accession number | 35.39 |
| Previous accession number(s) | 63 |
| Acquisition details | Given by Sir William Burrell 1944. |
| Provenance | Sir T. Gibson Carmichael sale Christie's, 1902, lot 264. |
| Principal exhibitions | The Burrell Collection Exhibition, Corporation of Glasgow Art Galleries and Museums, McLellan Galleries, 1949, cat. no. 571; A Festival of Britain Exhibition Selected from the Burrell Collection and Shown in the McLellan Galleries, Sauchiehall Street, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, 1951, cat. no. 388, as School of Botticelli. |
| Principal publications | Hannah, A., 'Virgin and Child', Scottish Art Review, vol. 5, no. 4, 1956, p. 3 (repr.), as school of Botticelli, early sixteenth century; The Burrell Collection: Pictures, Glasgow Art Gallery, McLellan Galleries, Glasgow, undated (ill.); Lightbrown, R., Sandro Botticelli: Complete Catalogue, London, 1978, vol. 2, p. 157, no. 14, listed under the category 'Other paintings attributed to Botticelli or his school'. |
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| Rights status | Culture and Sport Glasgow (Museums) |
| Author | Dr Heiner Krellig |
