File:Giovanni Battista Moroni - A Gentleman in Adoration before the Madonna - WGA16245.jpg

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A young man is praying before the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus; the figure of the virgin mary appears to be a statue.

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Giovanni Battista Moroni: A Gentleman in Adoration before the Madonna  wikidata:Q20176625 reasonator:Q20176625
Artist
Giovanni Battista Moroni  (circa 1525
date QS:P,+1525–00–00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
–1578)  wikidata:Q504949 q:it:Giovan Battista Moroni
 
Giovanni Battista Moroni
Alternative names
Giambattista Moroni, Giambattista Morone, Giovanni Battista Morone
Description Italian painter
Date of birth/death circa 1525
date QS:P,+1525-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
5 February 1578 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bondo, Albino Bergamo or Albino
Work period 1540 Edit this at Wikidata–1578 Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q504949
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
A Gentleman in Adoration before the Madonna Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Lde,"Edelmann in Anbetung vor der Madonna (Stifterporträt)"
label QS:Len,"A Gentleman in Adoration before the Madonna"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1560
date QS:P571,+1560-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 59.7 cm (23.5 in); width: 64.8 cm (25.5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,59.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,64.8U174728
institution QS:P195,Q214867
Current location
West Building, Main Floor - Gallery 22
Accession number
1939.1.114
Object history 1866 Possibly Count Teodoro Lechi, Brescia, Italy; Casa Grimani, Venice. (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence and Rome)
1932: purchased by Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York
1939: given to National Gallery of Art
Credit line Samuel H. Kress Collection
References
Source/Photographer 2. National Gallery of Art online catalogue. 1. Web Gallery of Art:   Image  Info about artwork
Other versions
File:Giovanni Battista Moroni - A Gentleman in Adoration before the Madonna - National Gallery of Art.jpg


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