LICHTENSTEIN GALLERY.
Nativity.
A Tondo of the Virgin kneeling before the divine Child, who is seated upon a sack and supported by an angel. Signed: PETRVS PERVSINVS P.
This closely resembles the picture in the Pitti.
BELGIUM.
BRUSSELS, ROYAL PICTURE GALLERY.
Madonna, Christ and St. John. Oval, 0·69 × 0·60 = 2 ft. 3 in. × 2 ft. [477.]
The Virgin is seated upon a stone bench and holds on her knees the infant Christ, who is turning toward St. John.
This picture was at one time in the collection of the Princes of Conti in Florence. It was sold in 1850 to M. P. Vellati of Rome, and from him purchased with two pictures by Crivelli for the Gallery in 1862.