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ATTRIBUTED TO PONTORMO (1494-1556)

The Virgin and Child

c.1534-40

RCIN 406117

This composition is known in many versions; this one good enough to be by the artist himself. It deals with the education of the Christ Child, who is seen twice, reading with his mother in the foreground and helping his father with carpentry in the middle ground. First recorded at Kensington Palace in 1818 Cat. 124

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