Madonna and Child
The Virgin in a gold-patterned blue mantle and white veil holds the nude infant Jesus, who grips a small cross-shaped object, on a gold cloth-draped ledge. Gourds, peaches and apples hang in the upper corners, and a pink curtain and a distant landscape frame the scene.
Look closer: A small fly rests on the stone ledge at the lower left, near the child's cushion.
- Artist
- Carlo Crivelli
- Date
- ca. 1480
- Medium
- Tempera and gold on wood
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Size
- 2726 × 4000 px
Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1485).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Jules Bache Collection, 1949