Virgin and Child with an Angel
Sandro Botticelli (Italian, 1444/45–1510)
1475–85
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Archival matte paper, 189 g/m² (10.3 mil), sourced from Japan, printed with multicolor water-based inkjet so every brushstroke stays crisp. Framed prints arrive ready to hang in a .75″ ayous-wood frame with an acrylite front. Sized to standard frames by cropping, never stretching — at most about 3% comes off one edge, which isn’t noticeable on most pieces, and we only offer a size when it stays that small.
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About this work
In this humanizing yet idealized depiction of the Virgin Mary embracing the baby Jesus, Sandro Botticelli conveyed the sacred beauty of maternal love. Mary, her expression soft and her skin luminous, nuzzles her son’s chubby cheek as he grasps the nape of her neck. An angel, smaller in scale, looks on adoringly. Highly celebrated in his own lifetime, Botticelli developed a distinctly sentimental and tactile style of painting for both religious and secular subjects.
- Medium
- Tempera on panel
- Original size
- 85.8 × 59.1 cm (33 3/4 × 23 1/4 in.)
Museum record · 4 owners · 7 exhibitions
Provenance
- Possibly Dr. Paoletti, Florence.
- Jules Féral, Paris, 1907–19; sold by Féral to a Scandinavian collector, 1919.
- Arnold van Buuren, Naarden, Holland; sold, Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, May 26–27, 1925, lot 20, for 25,500 guilders.
- Max Epstein (d. 1954), Chicago, from 1925 or 1928 to 1954; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954; on loan to his widow, Leola Epstein, Chicago, 1955–68.
Exhibitions
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Old Masters from the Collections of Cyrus H. McCormick and Max Epstein, 1928 (no cat.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Summer Exhibition: Old Masters Lent by Max Epstein, 1930 (no cat.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, The Christmas Story in Art, 1938–39 (no cat.).
- The University of Chicago, The Renaissance Society, Max Epstein Memorial Exhibition, 1955.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, New Light on Old Masters, Early Italian Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago, May 29–July 31, 1993, no cat. Museo di Palazzo Strozzi, Sandro Botticelli, March 11 – July 11, 2004.
