Circle of Marco Palmezzano

Mario Modestini, New York;

By whom donated to the American Commission on Italian Migration;

By whom sold, New York, Parke Bernet, 18 April 1962, lot 22 (as Marco Palmezzano);

Thereafter acquired by the present collector.

The Madonna and Child are situated before a red cloth of gold, behind which an elegant landscape is revealed, thereby situating the holy figures within the terrestrial world, a theological tenet underscored by the small orb held by the Christ Child.