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c. 1460-1470s

Virgin and Angels Adoring the Christ Child

Luca della Robbia

Italian (active Florence), 1400 - 1482

Round reliefs of the Adoration were sometimes placed in Florentine Renaissance bedchambers. If such was the original location of this masterpiece, the patron must have been an important one. The collector Edmond Foulc added the decorative frame in the late nineteenth century.

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