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EARLY PERIOD
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the entire picture showed in half-length worshipping
the Infant Christ. This is a most beautiful rendering
of a young simple creature filled with profound
devotion. The outline of her mantle shows a remark-
able coincidence with that found in the Verona
picture.1
Two more half-lengths of the Virgin with the Child,
partaking of the characteristics of style of those just
mentioned, belong, the one to the collection of M. P.
Delaroff of St. Petersburg,2 the other to the Museo
Civico of Vicenza.3 These are less important from
the aesthetic point of view.
Along with these works the large picture of the
Virgin adoring the Child, enthroned between Saints
Francis and Bernard of Siena, in the Brera Gallery,
also seems to find its proper place. It is no doubt
identical with the one seen by Boschini in a chapel
of the church of San Biagio at Vicenza; he gives it to
1 Bremen. Kunsthalle. No. 16. The Virgin wears a white hood
and a dark mantle. Landscape background. On wood. 0.31 X 0.25.
Formerly belonging to Herr Carl Steinhaeuser. I do not see any
particular reasons for assuming with Mr. Berenson {The Venetian
Painters, p. 117) that this is a fragment of an Annunciation. Compare
the outline of the mantle also with that in the Bergamo panel. I know
this picture only from a photograph by Stickelmann (Bremen).
2 St. Petersburg. Collection of M. P. Delaroff. The Virgin, in
vermilion tunic, white hood and green mantle with pink lining, is seated
between three marble parapets, two of which meet in front of her.
On one of the latter sits the Child, with a white loin-cloth. The Madonna
clasps Him with her right hand whilst He takes hold with His left hand
of her right and stretches His right towards her face. Landscape back-
ground ; to the left a trachyte hill, upon which are a campanile and a
ruin among trees; to the right, further back, the chain of the Alps.
The Virgin half-length. On wood. On the back is written:
“ Gekauft in Rom 1874.”
3 Vicenza. Museo Civico. Sala V. No. 6. The Virgin in red
tunic and dark blue mantle worships the Child who lies on a marble
parapet in front of her. A white cloth is wrapped round the lower
part of His body; in the right hand He holds two small figs. Dark
background. The Virgin half-length. On wood.
B
17
the entire picture showed in half-length worshipping
the Infant Christ. This is a most beautiful rendering
of a young simple creature filled with profound
devotion. The outline of her mantle shows a remark-
able coincidence with that found in the Verona
picture.1
Two more half-lengths of the Virgin with the Child,
partaking of the characteristics of style of those just
mentioned, belong, the one to the collection of M. P.
Delaroff of St. Petersburg,2 the other to the Museo
Civico of Vicenza.3 These are less important from
the aesthetic point of view.
Along with these works the large picture of the
Virgin adoring the Child, enthroned between Saints
Francis and Bernard of Siena, in the Brera Gallery,
also seems to find its proper place. It is no doubt
identical with the one seen by Boschini in a chapel
of the church of San Biagio at Vicenza; he gives it to
1 Bremen. Kunsthalle. No. 16. The Virgin wears a white hood
and a dark mantle. Landscape background. On wood. 0.31 X 0.25.
Formerly belonging to Herr Carl Steinhaeuser. I do not see any
particular reasons for assuming with Mr. Berenson {The Venetian
Painters, p. 117) that this is a fragment of an Annunciation. Compare
the outline of the mantle also with that in the Bergamo panel. I know
this picture only from a photograph by Stickelmann (Bremen).
2 St. Petersburg. Collection of M. P. Delaroff. The Virgin, in
vermilion tunic, white hood and green mantle with pink lining, is seated
between three marble parapets, two of which meet in front of her.
On one of the latter sits the Child, with a white loin-cloth. The Madonna
clasps Him with her right hand whilst He takes hold with His left hand
of her right and stretches His right towards her face. Landscape back-
ground ; to the left a trachyte hill, upon which are a campanile and a
ruin among trees; to the right, further back, the chain of the Alps.
The Virgin half-length. On wood. On the back is written:
“ Gekauft in Rom 1874.”
3 Vicenza. Museo Civico. Sala V. No. 6. The Virgin in red
tunic and dark blue mantle worships the Child who lies on a marble
parapet in front of her. A white cloth is wrapped round the lower
part of His body; in the right hand He holds two small figs. Dark
background. The Virgin half-length. On wood.
B