Madonna and Child with Music-making Angels
Francisco Ribalta (Lérida 1565 – Valencia 1628)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1585 - 1628
Materials
Oil on softwood panel
Measurements
1067 x 762 mm (42 x 30 in)
Order this imageCollection
Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 1257129
Caption
This painting on a wooden panel originally hung in a church in Valencia. It was brought to England in the early nineteenth century. The glass orb or globe under the Christ child's left foot identifies him in the rôle of Salvator Mundi or 'Saviour of the World'. The winged angels to left and right of the Madonna play the flute and guitar.
Summary
Oil painting on softwood panel, Madonna and Child with Music-making Angels by Francisco Ribalta (1565-1628). A horizontal view of the Madonna, half-length, centre in olive-green dress and red cloak, supports the naked Christ Child who stands on a table, his left foot on a glass ball and his left hand holding a crucifix; an angel to left and right, the left playing the flute and the right playing a lute.
Provenance
Goldsmith's Chapel of St Eligius (Eloy) in the church of St Catherine Martyr, Valencia; Don Francisco Lombart, Professor of Medicine at Valencia University; by inheritance to his son Don Joaquín Lombart, who has sold it bought by William Bankes in 1814 in Valencia; bequeathed by Ralph Bankes, 1981
Credit line
Kingston Lacy, The Bankes Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
Francisco Ribalta (Lérida 1565 – Valencia 1628), artist
