VIVARINI, BARTOLOMEO
MADONNA AND CHILD
Signed and dated (bottom right): BARTHOLOMES VIVAR/INVS DE MURIANO, P. 1481 (renovated, the last figure is not clearly legible).
The influence of Giovanni Bellini is clear in this Moscow picture, typical for works by Bartolomeo Vivarini in the 1470s and -80s.
Provenance: acquired in Italy (probably from the antiquarian dealer Ongagni on St. Mark's Square in Venice) between 1886 and 1898 by Khomyakov (Moscow), who donated it to the Rumyantsev Museum in 1901; in the Pushkin Museum since 1924.