Madonna and Child with a Pomegranate

Italian (Florentine) School. Oil painting on panel, Madonna and Child with a Pomegranate, Italian (Florentine) School , previously attributed to Andrea Piccinelli, called Il Brescianino (fl. 1507 - 1525),16th century. The Madonna stands three-quarter length in a classical interior with a view onto a landscape behind her, on the right. She is wearing a red robe and blue mantle and holds a missal in her left hand while her right hand supports the red-haired Infant Jesus who stands on a plinth on the left. His right arm is raised in the act of blessing and there is a large pomegranate on the plinth behind his right foot. Stourhead, Wiltshire (Accredited Museum)