Madonna and Child

Boccaccio Boccaccino

1506–1518 · Oil on wood · European Paintings

Although from Cremona, Boccaccio Boccaccino spent considerable time in Venice: the manner in which the Virgin is posed before a cloth of honor with a distant landscape derives from works by Giovanni Bellini. This charming picture, in which the child tempts a goldfish with a cherry, dates from around 1506–18 (the goldfinch is symbolic of Christ's Passion).

Artist

Boccaccio Boccaccino

Date

1506–1518

Medium

Oil on wood

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915