The Madonna Suckling the Infant Christ

Rizzi Gian Pietro called Giampietrino
(active in Lombardy first quarter of the 16th century)

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The work already featured in the collection in 1613, as shown by the payment for the construction of a frame for it. At that time the panel was considered to be the work of Leonardo, though later it was unanimously ascribed to Giampietrino. Thought to derive from a lost original by Leonardo, the painting clearly documents the powerful influence exerted by Leonardo over sixteenth-century artistic production in Lombardy. Note the contrast between the group in the foreground and the receding landscape outside the