Virgin and Child with a Flower Vase

religious

Boltraffio was one of the first, and perhaps the most interesting, pupils of Leonardo da Vinci. The influence of the master is obvious in this early painting by Boltraffio.

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About the Artist

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio

1467 – 1516

Italian painter, the the best of Leonardo 's Milanese followers. Most of his works are in Milan, but others are in Berlin, Budapest, Cambridge Mass. (Fogg), Florence (Uffizi), London (National Gallery), New York (Metropolitan Museum), Paris (Louvre and Jacquemart-André) and Philadelphia (Johnson). An interesting portrait by him is at Chatsworth, Derbyshire, and another, in Washington (National Gallery of Art), may have been worked on by Leonardo.

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