id: 97139 accession number: 1916.779 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.779 updated: 2023-04-26 11:23:47.596000 Virgin and Child, c. 1500. Circle of Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452–1519). Oil on wood; framed: 57.5 x 47 x 4 cm (22 5/8 x 18 1/2 x 1 9/16 in.); painted surface: 41.5 x 30.3 cm (16 5/16 x 11 15/16 in.); panel: 41.7 x 30.9 cm (16 7/16 x 12 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection 1916.779 title: Virgin and Child title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1500 creation date earliest: 1495 creation date latest: 1505 current location: creditline: Holden Collection copyright: --- culture: Italy, early 16th Century technique: oil on wood department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Italian 15th Century and earlier type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452–1519) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 57.5 x 47 x 4 cm (22 5/8 x 18 1/2 x 1 9/16 in.); Painted surface: 41.5 x 30.3 cm (16 5/16 x 11 15/16 in.); Panel: 41.7 x 30.9 cm (16 7/16 x 12 3/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). title: Exhibition of the Month: The Rise of the Landscape in Art opening date: 1948-06-09T04:00:00 Exhibition of the Month: The Rise of the Landscape in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 9-September 26, 1948). title: Art and Humanism in the Renaissance opening date: 1962-01-23T05:00:00 Art and Humanism in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 23-February 25, 1962). title: Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum opening date: 1991-06-07T04:00:00 Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Institute of Fine Arts, New York, NY (1860). * American Exhibition of Foreign Products, Arts and Manufacturers. Mechanics Hall, Boston, MA (September 3, 1883-January 12, 1884). * Cleveland Art Loan Exhibition. Hickox Building, Cleveland, OH (January 1894). * Loan Exhibition of the Holden Collection. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October 1912). * The Inaugural Exhibition of The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 6-September 20,1916). --- PROVENANCE Leopoldo Franceschi (San Miniatello, Italy), after his death, acquired by a carpenter named Monta date: footnotes: citations: Monta (Florence, Italy), after his death, by inheritance to his heirs date: footnotes: citations: Heirs of Monta, sold to Vincenzo Corsi, Florence, 1857 date: -1857 footnotes: citations: Vincenzo Corsi (Florence, Italy), sold to James Jackson Jarves, 1858 date: 1857-1858 footnotes: citations: James Jackson Jarves [1818-1888] sold to Mrs. Liberty E. Holden date: 1858-1884 footnotes: citations: Mrs. Liberty E. Holden [1838-1932] Cleveland, OH, by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916. date: 1884-1916 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1916- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Madonna and Child appear in half-length, seated against a dark wall. The Child's body is covered in shadow as he looks over his shoulder at his mother. This painting was bought by James Jackson Jarves as a Leonardo. The landscape and features of the figures are similar to Leonardo's Madonna of the Rocks, and in typical Leonardesque fashion, the figures' heads incline slightly to the left. However, Virgin and Child was later attributed to a member of Leonardo's circle named Francesco Napolitano (active 1500) because of its resemblance to his Madonna and Child with St. Sebastian and St. John the Baptist in Zurich, Switzerland. Virgin and Child has not been widely accepted as a work of Napolitano; however, he was certainly a member of Leonardo's circle. The Sforzesco Castle, the seat of Milan's ruling Sforza family, appears in the background. The castle's original Torre del Filarete, visible in this painting, was destroyed by lightning in 1521 and later rebuilt by Francesco II Sforza. The destruction of the tower establishes a date of about 1500 for this painting. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Jarves, James Jackson. Art Studies: The "Old Masters" of Italy : Painting. 1861. page number: Reproduced: p. 388 url: Hollenden Gallery, James Jackson Jarves, and Liberty Emery Holden. Handbook for Visitors to the Hollenden Gallery of Masters: Exhibited at the Boston Foreign Art Exhibition in 1883-4. S.l: J.J. Jarves, 1883. page number: Mentioned: p. 17-22 url: Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917. page number: Mentioned: p. 38-39, cat. no. 43; Reproduced: p. 67, No. 43 url: https://archive.org/details/Holden_80856/page/n48 G. U. "The Holden Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 19-34. page number: Mentioned: p. 20 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136067 Malaguzzi Valeri, Francesco. La corte di Lodovico il Moro. Milano, Italy: Hoepli, 1929. . page number: Reproduced: p. 44, no. 1 url: Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Reniassance, A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places (Oxford, 1932). page number: Reproduced: p. 205 url: Steegmuller, Francis. The Two Lives of James Jackson Jarves. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1951. page number: Mentioned: p. 223-224; Reproduced: p. 285 url: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places : Central Italian and North Italian Schools. London, United Kingdom: Phaidon, 1968. . page number: Reproduced: p. 144 url: Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. .. page number: Mentioned: p. 73-74; Reproduced: p. 322 url: Olszewski, Edward J., and Jane Glaubinger. The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles. Cleveland, OH: Published by the Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with the Indiana University Press, 1981. page number: Reproduced: p. 144 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 380; Reproduced: p. 381 url: Trutty-Coohill, Patricia. Studies in the School of Leonardo Da Vinci: Paintings in Public Collections in the United States with a Chronology of the Catalogue of Auction Sales. 1982. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 111-115 url: Chong, Alan, “Cleveland Collectors a Century Ago”, Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 36 no. 05, May 1996 page number: Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM1996-05/page/n7 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.779/1916.779_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.779/1916.779_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.779/1916.779_full.tif