# Virgin and Child

- By: Anna Maria Carew (British)
- By: Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, 1599–1641)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of the Painting and Drawing Society of The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.148)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/cma/2008.148/2008.148_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.