The Virgin and Child with Saints and a Donor (after a drawing by Girolamo da Treviso) (c. 1610): Art, History and Details

The Virgin and Child with Saints and a Donor (after a drawing by Girolamo da Treviso) (c. 1610) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Andrea Andreani (Italian, about 1558–1610); Alessandro Gandini (Italian).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This chiaroscuro woodcut was printed from three blocks in ochre and brown. It was likely based on a preliminary monochrome drawing for an altarpiece oil painting made by Girolamo da Treviso for the Boccaferri family chapel in the basilica of San Domenico in Bologna.

Object facts

• Title: The Virgin and Child with Saints and a Donor (after a drawing by Girolamo da Treviso)
• Date: c. 1610
• Creator attribution: Andrea Andreani (Italian, about 1558–1610); Alessandro Gandini (Italian)
• Culture: Italy
• Type: Print
• Technique: chiaroscuro woodcut
• Collection: PR - Chiaroscuro
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1925.985

A detail from the museum

A notarial document of 1564 refers to the artist of the print, Alessandro Gandini, as a "matematico" (mathematician), suggesting that Gandini likely dabbled in printmaking as an amateur rather than a professional practitioner.

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland

View the collection record

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