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The Benois Madonna
c. 1478–80 · oil on panel, transferred to canvas · The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
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image 6.3×10 in on a 8×10 in sheet
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All editionsAbout this painting
The room is dark and the window behind them is empty light. Mary holds out one small flower, its petals set like a cross, and the Child takes it in both hands and studies it with the whole weight of His attention. The Louvre, which borrowed the picture in 2019, reads the flower as the Passion handed forward and her smile as her knowing it. Leonardo began it in 1478, in his twenties, and the Hermitage has kept it since 1914, when the Benois family sold it. What she gives Him here, He will give back to us.
Sources: Title 'Virgin and Child, known as the Benois Madonna', about 1480-82 per the Louvre (the Hermitage dates it c. 1478-80), oil on panel transferred to canvas, Hermitage GE 2773; 'the flower Mary hands to Jesus foreshadows the Passion', the Child takes it solemnly, Mary smiles; one of two projects Leonardo began in late 1478 · Provenance: Korsakov (1790s), Sapozhnikov, the Benois family by marriage, bought by the Imperial Hermitage in 1914; the Child grasps the cruciform sprig of flowers; alternative title Madonna and Child with Flowers (citing Palmer 2019 and Feinberg 2011)