Virgin, Child and Saints

Virgin and Child enthroned, between St Catherine and St Francis; the Virgin sitting on a decorated throne and holding Christ Child on her lap, flanked on the left by Saint Catherine carrying a wheel and a palm, and on the right by Saint Francis holding a book and a cross; a 19thC re-strike. c.1490

This engraving, catalogued by Hind among a group of miscellaneous north Italian prints from about 1460-1500, is a modern one, deriving from a worn plate.

Characterised by a double border and horizontal striations on the ground, it seems a product of the late fifteenth-century Milanese school. Other impressions (all modern) are in Berlin; Florence (Galleria degli Uffizi), Milan (Castello Sforzesco), in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Zürich.

A good XIX century impression, with margins, in very good condition.

No contemporary impressions are known.