Virgin and Child with an Angel (Botticelli, Boston)

It is now held by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, having been acquired from Prince Chigi in 1899.

It shows influences from Filippo Lippi's Virgin and Child with Two Angels of c. 1465 in the Uffizi.

The Virgin Mary is shown in a three-quarter view, with the Christ Child held on her lap.

A smiling angel, wearing a crown of myrtle, offers them a bowl containing twelve ears of wheat and grapes.

The child raises a hand in benediction, and Mary holds one of the ears of corn.