{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VisualArtwork","@id":"https://saintspaintings.com/artworks/sandro-botticelli/the-virgin-and-child-with-saint-john-and-an-angel","name":"The Virgin and Child with Saint John and an Angel","url":"https://saintspaintings.com/artworks/sandro-botticelli/the-virgin-and-child-with-saint-john-and-an-angel","image":"https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0700/2505/2457/files/the-virgin-and-child-with-saint-john-and-an-angel-sandro-botticelli-45966872871209.jpg?v=1716878329","creator":{"@type":"Person","name":"Sandro Botticelli"},"dateCreated":"1490","locationCreated":"Italian","contentLocation":"National Gallery, London, UK","width":null,"artform":null,"temporalCoverage":"17th Century","about":[],"description":"Roses by Samuel Peploe, an oil painting in the Post Impressionism style with botanicals themes.","artMedium":"Tempera on panel","genre":"religious art","artwiki":{"masterId":"#28865","permalink":"the-virgin-and-child-with-saint-john-and-an-angel-sandro-botticelli","slug":"the-virgin-and-child-with-saint-john-and-an-angel-sandro-botticelli","categoriesRaw":"Subject Matter>Portraits>Female|Subject Matter>Cultural Heritage|Subject Matter>Cultural Heritage>Religious|Artist>Sandro Botticelli|Periods>17th Century|Nationality>Italian","tagsRaw":"Portraits,Female,Cultural Heritage,Religious,Sandro Botticelli,17th Century,Italian","catalogueVerified":{"date":{"value":"1490","source":"http://cima.ng-london.org.uk/collection/search.php?what=details&val=122&crop=false&sqllimit=%20AND%20FileGroup_id%20in%20(14)%20&whichdb=externalIIP&whichtable=Image&sortby=ObjectAlphaSort"},"medium":{"value":"tempera on poplar panel","source":"https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.41583.html"},"location":{"value":"National Gallery of Art","source":"https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.41583.html"},"dimensions":{"value":"84.5 × 84.5 cm","source":"http://cima.ng-london.org.uk/collection/search.php?what=details&val=122&crop=false&sqllimit=%20AND%20FileGroup_id%20in%20(14)%20&whichdb=externalIIP&whichtable=Image&sortby=ObjectAlphaSort"}},"enrichment":{"genre":"religious art","artist":{"birth":"1445","death":"1510","ulan_bio":"Florentine painter, 1444/1445-1510","ulan_url":"http://vocab.getty.edu/ulan/500015254","wikidata":"Q5669"},"medium":"Tempera on panel","museum":"Art Institute of Chicago","gallery":"Gallery 205","on_view":true,"department":"Painting and Sculpture of Europe","museum_url":"https://www.artic.edu/artworks/80530","provenance":"Possibly Dr. Paoletti, Florence [according to a note in the curatorial file, recording the remark of a Dr. Richter, presumably Jean Paul, during a visit to the Epstein home in June 1935]. Jules Féral, Paris, 1907–19 [according to Lightbown 1978]; sold by Féral to a Scandinavian collector, 1919 [according to Lightbown 1978]. Arnold van Buuren, Naarden, Holland; sold, Sotheby Mak van Waay, Amsterdam, May 26–27, 1925, lot 20, for 25,500 guilders [according to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Getty Research Institute]. Max Epstein (d. 1954), Chicago, from 1925 or 1928 to 1954 [Levey and Mandel 1967 stated that Epstein purchased the work in 1925, but it may not have arrived in the United States until May 1928, corresponding to registrar’s records dated May 15, 1928]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954; on loan to his widow, Leola Epstein, Chicago, 1955–68.","credit_line":"Max and Leola Epstein Collection","exhibitions":"The Art Institute of Chicago, Old Masters from the Collections of Cyrus H. 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