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Antonello da Messina (artist)
Italian, c. 1430 - 1479
Madonna and Child, c. 1475
oil and tempera on panel transferred from panel
painted surface: 58.1 x 43.2 cm (22 7/8 x 17 in.) overall: 58.9 x 43.7 cm (23 3/16 x 17 3/16 in.) framed: 86.7 x 74.8 x 8.3 cm (34 1/8 x 29 7/16 x 3 1/4 in.)
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
1937.1.30
Not on View
From the Tour: Venetian Painting in the Early Renaissance
Object 1 of 7

Exhibition History

1910
Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters. Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1910, no. 32, as Virgin and Child by School of Vicenza.
1912
A Collection of Pictures of the Early Venetian School and Other Works of Art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1912, no. 31 (no. 13 and pl. XII of illustrated catalogue titled Early Venetian Pictures and Other Works of Art).
1927
Loan Exhibition of the Benson Collection of Old Italian Masters, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1927, no. 37.
1979
Berenson and the Connoisseurship of Italian Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 1, repro.

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