Detail of the Madonna and Child by Titian in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, August 2010

Artist: Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Pieve di Cadore ca. 1485/90?–1576 Venice)

Title: Madonna and Child

Date: ca. 1510

Medium: Oil on wood

Dimensions: Overall 18 x 22 in. (45.7 x 55.9 cm); painted surface 17 x 21 1/2 in. (43.2 x 54.6 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: The Jules Bache Collection, 1949

Accession Number: 49.7.15

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Dating from around 1510, this is among the earliest devotional paintings of the Madonna and Child by Titian. Examination with infra-red reflectography reveals that initially he conceived a conventional picture: the Madonna and child were more erect and the composition centralized.

The picture has been strongly cleaned in the past and has lost much of its delicacy of definition.

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