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    • Madonna and Child, ca. 1495–1500
    Francesco Francia (Francesco di Marco di Giacomo Raibolini) (Italian, Bolognese, active by 1482, died 1517/18)
    Oil on wood

    24 x 18 1/8 in. (61 x 46 cm)
    Gift of Lewis C. Ledyard III, Mrs. Victor Onet, and Mrs. T. F. Turner, in memory of Lewis C. Ledyard, 1982 (1982.448)

    Francia was a leading painter in Bologna whose softly modeled works were much admired by contemporaries. This picture shows the Madonna standing behind a window, the inner edges of which are represented illusionistically, and dates from about 1495–1500. It is in an exceptionally fine state of preservation. Another version is in a private collection in Bologna. The Venetian frame is not original to the picture but is of the period and is in beautiful condition.

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  • Bayer, Andrea. "North of the Apennines: Sixteenth-Century Italian Painting in Lombardy and Emilia-Romagna." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 60, no. 4 (Spring, 2003).
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  • Madonna and Child, ca. 1495–1500
    Francesco Francia (Francesco di Marco di Giacomo Raibolini) (Italian, Bolognese, active by 1482, died 1517/18)
    Oil on wood

    24 x 18 1/8 in. (61 x 46 cm)
    Gift of Lewis C. Ledyard III, Mrs. Victor Onet, and Mrs. T. F. Turner, in memory of Lewis C. Ledyard, 1982 (1982.448)