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Copy after <i>Virgin and Child</i>, Fra Bartolomeo in the Convent of San Marco (Florence)

Bartolommeo Frà

1850

watercolor

From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum

Early 19th Century Religious

Dominant colour

Copy after <i>Virgin and Child</i>, Fra Bartolomeo in the Convent of San Marco (Florence) is a 1850 watercolor by Bartolommeo Frà, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Who painted this?: Bartolommeo Frà
When & what style?: 1850
Where can I see it?: Victoria and Albert Museum

The story of this work

Overview

A watercolour copy by Eduard Kaiser after Fra Bartolomeo’s *Virgin and Child* in the Convent of San Marco, Florence, depicts the Virgin in a red and yellow robe holding the Christ Child. Executed for the Arundel Society in 1850, the work was later published as a chromolithograph in 1869. Fra Bartolomeo, a Dominican friar influenced by Savonarola, later incorporated Venetian colour techniques after moving to Venice in 1508. The watercolour was acquired by the National Gallery in 1995.

Read the full account in the museum source.