European Painting before 1900, Johnson Collection Virgin and Child before a Landscape Made in Italy, Europec. 1490 Vincenzo Foppa, Italian (active Milan), born 1427/30, died 1515/16 Oil and gold on panel Currently not on view Cat. 257 John G. Johnson Collection, 1917 |
LabelVincenzo Foppa painted many versions of this scene, in which the Virgin nurses the Christ Child before an elaborately brocaded curtain set against a distant Lombard landscape. The intensity of expression, silver-gray flesh tones, and sculptural quality of the figures seen in this panel are characteristic of the painter, who drew on a variety of artistic influences during his career working across northern Italy. |
