Virgin and Child

Antonio Rossellino

model ca. 1475 (cast 19th century) · Copper alloy with gilding; the reverse is hollow; pierced at the top. · Robert Lehman Collection

This plaquette, depicting the Virgin and Child, is based on a composition by Antonio Rossellino. It is a simpler variant of another in the Lehman Collection (1975.1.1331), which bears angels crowing the Virgin. Other versions of the plaquette are in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Given the coarseness of this aftercast, like that of the Washington piece, it is likely that it was made in the nineteenth century.

Artist

Antonio Rossellino

Date

model ca. 1475 (cast 19th century)

Medium

Copper alloy with gilding; the reverse is hollow; pierced at the top.

Department

Robert Lehman Collection

Credit line

Robert Lehman Collection, 1975