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- Sassoferrato (1609 - 1685)
- The Virgin and Child
- Italy
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- Date: 1640s
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Image size: 85.4 x 72.6 cm
- Frame size: 109 x 100 x 9 cm
- Inv: P565
- Location: not on display
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- A typical example of Sassoferrato’s small-scale pictures of the Virgin, this composition is a rectangular version of the same composition as in the other painting by Sassoferrato hanging on the same wall. A comparison of the two works demonstrates the consistently high quality of Sassoferrato’s repetitions.
This picture may have been acquired by the 4th Marquess of Hertford as a superior example of the subject, to be kept with him in his Parisian collection, rather than in London.
- A typical example of Sassoferrato’s small-scale pictures of the Virgin, this composition is a rectangular version of the same composition as in the other painting by Sassoferrato hanging on the same wall. A comparison of the two works demonstrates the consistently high quality of Sassoferrato’s repetitions.