Oil on canvas. Lombard school of the 17th century.
The large scene presents the seated Madonna in the center offering her breast to the Baby Jesus, who instead stretches out to try to pick a fruit from the basket offered to him by St. John, standing below
of them; all around, five figures of saints, recognizable by their iconographic attributes.
From the left we have: St. Paul, holding the sword, St. Anna, lovingly watching over his daughter and grandson, St. Peter with the keys of the Kingdom in his hand, St. Joseph with his staff and a carpenter's tool at his waist, and finally, last on the right, St. Charles Borromeo, whose presence in the work endorses the Lombard commission.
The painting also comes from the private collection of a Lombard family, of which it has been part since the 19th century.
The work is still on first canvas and with the original frame; It has some small patches and signs of previous repairs on the back.
It is presented in a late 19th century frame.
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PLATINUM Seller in Milano, Italy
