Madonna and Child Artworks

Depictions of the Madonna and Child in various artistic styles, including Renaissance and Baroque elements, featuring serene expressions and rich colors.

Madonna and Child, 1711, Attributed to Carlo Maratti, Italian, (Roman), 1625 - 1713, 38 1/2 x 29 3/4 in. (97.79 x 75.57 cm) (canvas)50 1/4 x 41 1/4 x 4 in. (127.64 x 104.78 x 10.16 cm) (outer frame), Oil on canvas, Italy, 18th century, Carlo Maratti, a preeminent painter in late 17th-century Rome, was nicknamed Carluccio delle Madonne, or Little Carlo of the Madonnas. He produced an endless variety of works depicting an idealized, comforting vision of the Virgin and Child. This chubby infant Christ, holding an apple, looks piously up toward God while his somber mother and an adolescent angel seem to contemplate his fate. The painting may be a very late work by Marattian old inscription on the back of the canvas dates it to 1711or it may have been done by one of his many Roman followers.
Madonna and Child, 1711, Attributed to Carlo Maratti, Italian, (Roman), 1625 - 1713, 38 1/2 x 29 3/4 in. (97.79 x 75.57 cm) (canvas)50 1/4 x 41 1/4 x 4 in. (127.64 x 104.78 x 10.16 cm) (outer frame), Oil on canvas, Italy, 18th century, Carlo Maratti, a preeminent painter in late 17th-century Rome, was nicknamed Carluccio delle Madonne, or Little Carlo of the Madonnas. He produced an endless variety of works depicting an idealized, comforting vision of the Virgin and Child. This chubby infant Christ, holding an apple, looks piously up toward God while his somber mother and an adolescent angel seem to contemplate his fate. The painting may be a very late work by Marattian old inscription on the back of the canvas dates it to 1711or it may have been done by one of his many Roman followers.