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Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Circle of Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503–1572)LinkedCulture matchlcp-311082af4733
- Date
- c. 1530
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Culture
- Florence
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 16958
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
Three examples of this composition are known: an original version and two copies, including this one. All are unfinished. This version and the other copy follow a cartoon, or pattern drawing, based on the original work, and may be from a later date. It is unclear why these replicas were begun and then abandoned, but it was fairly common for Florentine workshops to repeat popular compositions. The paintings’ authorship is much debated, due to the close artistic relationships between Agnolo Bronzino and his Florentine associates like Jacopo Pontormo, whose work can also be seen in this gallery.
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- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Provenance
- Sestieri, Rome; sold to Colnaghi, London, 1962 [according to letter of January 29, 1991 from Jeremy Howard of Colnaghi in curatorial file]; purchased from Colnaghi by the Art Institute through the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Endowment, 1963.
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- Object type
- AAT300033618
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