Madonna and Child with Two Saints (Pisanello)

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Madonna and Child with Two Saints (c. 1445) by Pisanello

Madonna and Child with Two Saints or Madonna and Child with Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint George is a panel painting by Pisanello, executed c. 1445, now in the National Gallery, London. It is his only signed panel work ("Pisanus"). [1]

It was recorded in the Costabili collection in Ferrara in 1841 before being bought in 1862 by Sir Charles Eastlake, whose widow left it to the National Gallery five years later. [2]

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References

  1. (in Italian) AA.VV., L'opera completa di Pisanello, Rizzoli, Milano 1966
  2. Catalogue entry