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The Madonna of the Carnation \u2013 the only Leonardo permanently on view in Germany<\/h2>\n

The Madonna of the Carnation is an early Leonardo with an unusual path: a panel once owned by the Medici of Florence later turned up in German private collections, and from there in Munich. Today it is the only Leonardo painting permanently on display in Germany. Our hand-painted reproduction on canvas brings this richly furnished scene into your home, painted in oil on canvas.<\/p>\n

An early work from Verrocchio\u2019s workshop<\/h3>\n

The painting was made around 1475, while Leonardo was still in Andrea del Verrocchio\u2019s workshop. At first it was attributed to Verrocchio himself; today scholars agree it is Leonardo\u2019s, from his apprentice years. You can see it: the face and hands are already entirely his, while the elaborate handling of fabrics, jewellery and the crystal vase remains wholly in the spirit of the workshop he came from. The original is painted in oil on a poplar panel and, by the museum\u2019s own figures, measures 62 \u00d7 48.5 cm.<\/p>\n

What the painting shows<\/h3>\n

Mary sits before two windows opening onto a bluish mountain landscape, a carnation in her hand. The flower is no ornament: in Renaissance painting the red carnation is a settled sign of the Passion, and the child reaches for it with a childish eagerness that gives the scene a moving doubleness. On the little table before them stands a glass vase of flowers, painted with such precision of reflections that it is a small pictorial performance in itself.<\/p>\n

From a Medici collection to a Bavarian town<\/h3>\n

The painting\u2019s early fortunes belong to Florence: it was owned by Giulio de\u2019 Medici, later Pope Clement VII. It then vanishes from the record for a long stretch and passes through German private collections in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Alte Pinakothek in Munich acquired it in 1889; by the collection\u2019s own entry it was bought from Dr A. Haug in G\u00fcnzburg. The story one sometimes reads, of an estate auction and a laughably small purchase price, is not confirmed by the museum\u2019s record, and so we do not repeat it here.<\/p>\n

A hand-painted reproduction for your home<\/h3>\n

Every reproduction of the Madonna of the Carnation is entirely hand-painted in oil on canvas \u2013 not a print, but a real painting created for you by an experienced artist. It is available in eight sizes, stretched on a wooden frame on request and in a frame from our 3D range. Its dense detail carries larger formats well, where the fabrics and the glass vase finally come into their own.<\/p>\n