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Gazette des beaux-arts, 3rd ser., 13 (May 1895), p. 432, notes that after long being considered a work of Titian's youth, it is now unattributed; finds that the Child resembles the late work of Giovanni Bellini and the Madonna vaguely recalls the women of Palma Vecchio; adds that the painting is definitely not an early work. Claude Phillips.
The Madonna and Child are shown in a contemporary Florentine palace. Through the window is an arcade with the armorial device of the wealthy Florentine banker Filippo Strozzi (three crescents). The background evokes the area around the Strozzi villa near Florence.
The format of the polyptych (multi-paneled altarpiece) was highly unusual in that the central image, the present Madonna and Child, was the same size as the flanking panels, allowing the entire altarpiece, which was intended to be portable, to be easily folded and moved.
A Madonna and Child by Bergognone in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan—often dated to the 1480s—seems to be based on The Met's picture. The gold border, over-painted in black at some time in the past, was revealed when the picture was cleaned in 1978–79. Keith Christiansen 2011
This is a copy of Raphael’s Virgin and Child known as ‘The Bridgewater Madonna’. The original is on loan to the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh from the Duke of Sutherland’s collection.The copy is similar in size and in most colours and follows Raphael’s style closely, making it difficult...
Madonna and Child, probably c. 1535 or after. West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 35. Medium. oil on panel. Dimensions. overall: 71.2 x 52.1 cm (28 1/16 x 20 1/2 in.)
Madonna and Child; 1290–1295; Master of St. Cecilia (Italian, active about 1290 - 1320); Tempera and gold leaf on panel; Unframed: 85 × 66 cm (33 7/16 × 26 in.); 2000.35 The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles
