An Old Master Painting of the Nursing Madonna

Oil on canvas (lined), 18th century, unsigned, presented in a painted and gilt tabernacle frame.

SS 12 x 9 7/8 in.; DOA 24 x 20.25 in.

From the Estate of the late Jacqueline C. Harris, Durham, North Carolina

In the manner of Leonard da Vinci and depicting the Virgin Mary nursing the Christ Child while Saint John rests at her hip, another young child sleeping at her feet.

Abrasion and some alligatoring to surface; scattered re-touch visible under UV light.

$500 - 1,000