Virgin Adoring the Child
Andrea di Francesco Guardi
(Italian (Tuscany), active 1451–1470)
About 1451–70
Object PlaceTuscany, Italy
Medium/TechniqueStone; Marble
DimensionsOverall: 38.1 x 33 x 5.1 cm (15 x 13 x 2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession number17.1468
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
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Guardi displays a charming ambition in the carving of this small marble relief, as he stresses the layering of the three-dimensional forms of the figures. Notice how the baby tucks his hand behind the left arm of his mother, who brings her hands together in prayer but holds them behind her own face as she looks down at her son.
ProvenanceQuincy Adams Shaw (b. 1825 - d. 1908), Boston; 1917, gift of Quincy Adams Shaw, through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 29, 1917)
Francesco Guardi
Francesco Guardi
