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The Lenti Madonna or Bache Madonna is a tempera and gold on panel painting by
The Lenti Madonna or Bache Madonna is a tempera and gold on panel painting by Carlo Crivelli
Carlo Crivelli (Venice, c. 1430 – Ascoli Piceno, c. 1495) was an Italian Renaissance painter of conservative Late Gothic decorative sensibility, who spent his early years in the Veneto, where he absorbed influences from the Vivarini ...
, executed ''c.'' 1472–1473, and signed OPVS KAROLI CRIVELLI VENETI. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
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, which it entered in 1944.
Small and intended for private devotion, it was probably the work seen by Orsini around 1790 in Pier Giovanni Lenti's house in Ascoli Piceno
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with a "K" in its signature rather than the more usual "C" - the alternative candidate is the Ancona Madonna (probably c. 1480), but that is signed "CAROLI" not "KAROLI". The first definitive mention of the work dates to 1852, placing it in the Jones Collection in Clytha
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It lies just off the A40 road, to the south of Llanarth and west of Raglan. It contains Clytha Park and Clytha Castle and Llanarth Estate Office, Ty Gwynt and Pit House ...
, from which it passed to the Baring Collection in 1871 and then the Northbrook Collection. The Duveen Brothers
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acquired it in 1927, ceding it to Jules S. Bache, before finally passing to its present collection. Pietro Zampetti, ''Carlo Crivelli'', Nardini Editore, Firenze 1986.
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