Madonna and Child with Saints James the Great and Jerome

This panel shows the Virgin and Child flanked by Saint James the Great and Saint Jerome, two saints placed beside the Mother of God. The work is attributed to Moretto and dated to around 1517, although some references place it around 1512 and assign it to Romanino, which shows how hard it can be to pin down the authorship and chronology of some paintings from the Lombard Renaissance. Its documented history begins with the catalogues of Count Teodoro Lechi's collection in Brescia, from 1824 and 1837. It does not appear in another catalogue of that collection dated 1814, which suggests it was acquired after that year. It was sold at auction in London in 1845 and later belonged to the Cook collection in Richmond upon Thames, before entering the High Museum of Art in Atlanta in 1950.

Painter

Moretto da Brescia

Date

1517

Medium

oil paint, panel

Dimensions

149 × 138 cm

Museum

High Museum of Art, Atlanta

Genre

religious art

Depicts

boy, Mary, Jerome, woman, mother, Christ Child

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