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The Virgin in Prayer
c. 1640–50 · Oil on canvas · The National Gallery, London
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All editionsAbout this painting
Two hands pressed together, a head bowed over them, and nothing else. No lily, no Child, no book: only red, white and blue against a dark the National Gallery calls impenetrable. The blue names her. The Gallery traces it to ultramarine, ground from lapis mined in Afghanistan, the costliest blue, often kept for Mary's robes to signify her sacred status; patrons who commissioned a painting often paid for the exact quantity used. Sassoferrato worked otherwise. He repeated a handful of Marian types for private clients, as Gerard Vaughan and the Gallery describe, and those clients go largely unrecorded. Richard Simmons left this one to the Gallery in 1846. Our Lady keeps her eyes down and her hands where they are.
Sources: The National Gallery, London, NG200 object page · Gerard Vaughan, 'Sassoferrato at the National Gallery of Victoria,' NGV Art Journal 43 (2003) · The National Gallery, London, 'Journey through colour', Making Colour exhibition (2014) · Stephanie C. Leone, catalogue entry on Giovanni Battista Salvi (Sassoferrato), 'Madonna of the Cherubs', McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College · The National Gallery, London, Sassoferrato, 'The Virgin and Child Embracing', NG740, object page · National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Sassoferrato, 'Madonna in prayer', c. 1640-50, acc. 2002.126, collection object page · The National Gallery, London, 'Colour Stories: Blue'. · The National Gallery, London, Giovanni Bellini, 'The Virgin and Child', NG280.