Giovanni BelliniItalian, 1430–1516Vierge à l'Enfant
Can I see it?
Unknown
Where is “Vierge à l'Enfant” now? Collection: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chambéry, Chambéry. Unknown.
Chambéry, France
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Details
- Accession number
- M 847 ; Mesnard 3602/220 (Autre numéro) ; Bord 510 (Autre numéro)
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chambéry
- Image: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chambéry — Giroud, Bouchayer, FONTANA; Ministère de la Culture (France), base Joconde
In the life of Giovanni Bellini
The whole life1501–1505
Isabella Gonzaga and commissions without paintings
In 1501–04 the Marchioness of Mantua, Isabella Gonzaga (also known as Isabella d'Este), has great difficulty obtaining from Bellini a painting of the Madonna and Saints, for which she has already paid in advance (it is now lost). In 1505 she tries through Pietro Bembo to commission another, of secular or mythological content; its subject and fate are unknown.
1506
Meeting Dürer in Venice
On Albrecht Dürer's second visit to Venice he calls Bellini very old but still the best in painting, and full of courtesy toward foreign fellow painters. In a letter to Pirckheimer Dürer reports that Bellini praised him before many gentlemen and came himself to ask for a work, promising to pay well.
1507
The death of his brother Gentile
After Gentile's death Giovanni inherits their father Jacopo's sketchbook, on condition that he finish a picture his brother left incomplete. Marin Sanudo notes that Gentile's brother Zuan Belin remains, the most excellent painter in Italy.
