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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of Madonna and Child
Giovanni Bellini (artist)
Italian, c. 1430/1435 - 1516
Madonna and Child, c. 1480/1485
oil on panel
painted surface: 52.3 x 41.5 cm (20 9/16 x 16 5/16 in.) overall size: 53.7 x 42.5 cm (21 1/8 x 16 3/4 in.) framed: 86.8 x 70.6 x 7.9 cm (34 3/16 x 27 13/16 x 3 1/8 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1939.1.352
From the Tour: Venetian Painting in the Early Renaissance
Object 2 of 7

Exhibition History

1924
Loan Exhibition of Important Early Italian Paintings in the Possession of Notable American Collectors, Duveen Brothers, New York, 1924, no. 47 (no. 44 in illustrated 1926 version of catalogue).
1932
Exhibition of Italian Renaissance Art, Wadsworth Atheneum and Morgan Memorial, Hartford, 1932, no. 8.
2004
Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2004, no. 306, repro., as Icon of the Virgin and Child.

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