Madonna and Child

Italian (Florentine or Paduan) Painter (Cheyo da Firenze?)

Date unknown · Tempera on wood, gold ground · European Paintings

The attribution of this damaged but compelling picture—a work of unusual expressive intensity—has puzzled scholars. It may be by a Paduan follower of Giotto and was perhaps painted about 1310–15—not long after Giotto completed his celebrated fresco cycle in the Arena Chapel, Padua. The painter has tentatively been associated with a cycle of frescoes in the chapter house of the great abbey of Pomposa, near Ferrara. The panel has been cut on all sides.

Artist

Italian (Florentine or Paduan) Painter (Cheyo da Firenze?)

Date

Date unknown

Medium

Tempera on wood, gold ground

Department

European Paintings

Credit line

Gift of Robert Lehman, 1947