Madonna and Child by the Workshop of Andrea del Verocchio in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2007

Madonna and Child, ca. 1470
Workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio (Italian, Florentine, 1435–1488)
Tempera and gold on wood; 26 x 19 in. (66 x 48.3 cm)
Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913 (14.40.647)

Verrochio, a great sculptor, painter, and draftsman ran the most prestigious workshop of the last third of the fifteenth century in Florence. (Botticelli and the young Leonardo were among those associated with the shop.) This picture is of fine quality and is based on a design by Verrocchio. It dates about 1470. Although the left side of the Madonna's face is badly damaged, passages such as the Child's head convey the original quality of the painting.

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