Circle of Giovanni Bellini (Venice c. 1431/36-1516)
Lot 187 PROPERTY FROM AN ITALIAN COLLECTOR (LOTS 187 AND 254)

Circle of Giovanni Bellini (Venice c. 1431/36-1516)

The Madonna and Child

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Circle of Giovanni Bellini (Venice c. 1431/36-1516)
The Madonna and Child
on gold ground panel, shaped top
23 x 13 ¾ in. (58.5 x 34.9 cm.)

Simonetti collection, Rome (according to a stamp on the reverse).

Specialist note

This composition relates closely to Bellini's early Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child (New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art), which is dated to the 1460s. A similar arrangement can also be seen in Antonio Vivarini's picture of the same subject in the Museo Davia Bargellini, Bologna.