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Image of a sleeping baby in his mother’s arms who is reclined and leaning to the right. 　

The figures are off center in the picture and situated on the right side, light illuminates them from the upper right. The mother looks lovingly at the child with her head tilted slightly to the right, she’s dressed in draped robes, and her hair is braided around her head. The child’s chest is covered in fabric, he has tight curly hair, his right arm is stretched out into his mother’s hand as he sleeps peacefully, his face turned toward the right. Rendered in dark earthy monotone, it has a dark background of an outdoor mountainous landscape.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
M21954
People
Wallerant Vaillant, Dutch (Lille, France 1623 - 1677 Amsterdam, Netherlands)
After Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, Italian (Viadana, Italy c. 1505 - c. 1570 Parma, Italy)
Title
Madonna and Child
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
17th century
Culture
Dutch
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/263001

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Mezzotint
Dimensions
26.7 x 31.7 cm (10 1/2 x 12 1/2 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
H. 25

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Charles Rosen in honor of Sydney J. Freedberg
Accession Year
1992
Object Number
M21954
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 2300 Dutch & Flemish, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/20/2019 - 09/15/2021

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