Madonna and Child with Angels
The original, as its museum records it
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About this painting
Who painted this is unsettled. Washington catalogued it as Cossa in 1941; Zeri removed it from him in 1967; Manca suggested Gherardo Costa in 1990. The Gallery now prints only Ferrarese.
The mother prays, hands together, over a Child asleep in the corner. The Met and Edinburgh, describing other pictures of this motif, read it as a foreshadowing of his death. Two small angels at lower left copy her hands. He is wrapped in sheer cloth, with a golden halo, and he wears red: a necklace at his throat, a bracelet at each wrist.
Sources: National Gallery of Art, Washington, artist page 'Ferrarese 15th Century', artworks page 2, entry for Madonna and Child with Angels, 1939.1.115; read 2026-09-01. · National Gallery of Art, 'Madonna and Child with Angels', Ferrarese 15th Century, c. 1455/1470, 1939.1.115, bibliography · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child', Giovanni Bellini, object description · National Galleries of Scotland, 'The Virgin Adoring the Sleeping Christ Child', Sandro Botticelli, object description
Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 4,896 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.