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This large, cartoon size drawing was made on two sheets put together and trimmed on all four sides. It probably served as a model for a painting or a relief that was supposed to be executed by an other artist. There is, however, no documented evidence that the project was ever realized.
This half-length depiction of the Virgin and Child is in keeping with the iconographic type of the Madonna Lactans (the Virgin breast-feeding). It is one of the most beautiful Madonna studies of the Renaissance.
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