Live Auction 2282Old Master & 19th Century Paintings, Drawings, & Watercolors
Studio of Sandro Botticelli (Florence 1444/5-1510)
Lot 319 Items Sold to Benefit the Denver Art Museum Acquisitions Fund

Studio of Sandro Botticelli (Florence 1444/5-1510)

The Madonna and Child

Closed27 January 2010

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USD 80,500

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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

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

Specialist note

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.