Why it matters
The Virgin and Child sit in an Italian landscape, with a church on the right thought to be San Bernardino, where the Dukes of Urbino were buried. Raphael probably painted it in Urbino around 1504–1505.
Did you know?
- It is named after the 3rd Earl Cowper, who bought it around 1780.
- It passed down six generations of the Cowper family.
- Peter A. B. Widener bought it in 1914.
Based on the Wikipedia article Small Cowper Madonna (CC BY-SA 4.0).
