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Title
Virgin and Child in a Landscape with the Child Baptist and St Catherine of Alexandria
 
        
    
    
    
        
        
            
            
Maker of the object
Carpi, Girolamo da (1501 - 1556, Italian)
 
        
    
    
    
        
        
            
            
        
    
    
    
        
        
            
            
        
    
    
    
    
    
        
        
            
            
Culture / painting school
Italian
 
        
    
    
    
        
        
            
            
Description
The infants Christ and St John embrace in the presence of the Virgin and St Catherine. Behind the Virgin, St Joseph attends to an ox and an ass. The background in distance to the left is mountainous, and in the sky is a choir of angels.
 
        
    
    
    
        
        
            
            
        
    
    
    
        
        
            
            
Measurements
framed: 783 mm x 987 mm x 98 mm;unframed: 615 mm x 820 mm