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Virgin and Child
Anna Maria Carew (British)
after Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641)
c. 1662
- Medium
- watercolor heightened with gum on vellum, with gold
- Classification
- Portrait Miniature
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 12.1 cm (4 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- England, 17th century
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of the Painting and Drawing Society of The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
Larger in size than most portrait miniatures, the Madonna and Child by Anna Maria Carew is a cabinet miniature, or a small work on vellum, enamel, or ivory that copies a full-scale oil painting. In this case the original painting was by Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck, and engraved by Paulus Pontius around 1630 shortly after it was painted. As a cabinet miniature, this work is somewhat unusual because of its religious subject and its simplicity. Cabinet miniatures tended instead to reproduce paintings of dramatic subjects and climactic moments in myths or religious stories. They could be hung on the wall or stored in elaborate and specially designed furniture, and they were often displayed in the smaller, more private rooms of a house.
