Virgin and Child with Two Angels (Botticelli, Strasbourg)
Virgin and Child with two Angels is a panel painting by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, made around 1468–1469. It uses tempera and oil on wood and shows the Virgin Mary with the Child and two angels. The work is part of the Florentine Quattrocento and measures about 107 by 75 cm. It is on display at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Strasbourg, France (inventory 558). The painting is in relatively poor condition, with some tempera peeling and old restorations, which led some critics to doubt Botticelli’s authorship at first, though today most scholars agree it is an early Botticelli. It shows influences from Botticelli’s master Filippo Lippi and knowledge of Andrea del Verrocchio, and is dated to 1468 or 1469. It was bought in London in 1904 by Karl Trübner from the heirs of Horatio Granville Murray-Stewart and was given to Strasbourg in 1908 along with other Trübner collection paintings.
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