Virgin and Child with an angel
1877
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1877
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Virgin and Child with an angel is a 1877 by Ansiglione, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This is a print of the Virgin and Child with an angel by Ansiglione from 1877. It’s not a painting—it’s a print made for the Arundel Society to share with subscribers. The print uses a process called chromolithography. That means it was made with greasy ink on wet stones, one stone per color, pressed onto paper. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum next.
The work is a chromolithograph from 1877 reproducing Fra Filippo Lippi’s *Virgin and Child with an angel* in the Uffizi, Florence, depicting the Virgin supporting the Christ Child with two angels, one gazing outward, set against a rocky landscape. Produced for the Arundel Society, it was created by transferring Lippi’s composition onto lithographic stones, each dedicated to a separate color, before being printed and distributed to subscribers. The Society, named after the 17th-century collector Thomas Howard, focused on disseminating reproductions of Italian fresco cycles from the 14th to…
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This 19th-century printmaker made religious scenes in a straightforward style. Their 1877 print Virgin and Child with an angel shows a calm Madonna and child flanked by a winged figure, typical of devotional art from…
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