Madonna and Child with Sts Francis, John the Baptist, Jerome, and Catherine
by LOTTO, Lorenzo, Oil on panel, 40 x 29 cm
This small devotional painting is virtually identical in style to the Recanati polyptych, the culminating masterpiece of Lotto’s early period. It translates the formal and expressive language of the polyptych into the category of small works made for private devotion.
The painting is signed on the stone base: L. LO[T]US.