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La zingarella (The Madonna and Child with a Rabbit)

Image credit: National Trust Images

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The traditional title refers to the Madonna being attired as a gypsy girl (zingarella). Her hair is wrapped in a scarf about her head, she wears a white shirt, blue skirts and sandals. She is depicted sitting on the ground with flowers about her and the infant in her lap, recalling the traditional iconography of the Madonna of Humility. Above are ghostly figures of angels and to her left the head of a white rabbit. In antiquity it was thought that the rabbit could reproduce without sexual intercourse, so here the rabbit is an allusion to the Madonna's virginity and the conception of Christ without sin, the creature's whiteness an assertion of purity.

National Trust, Stourhead

Warminster

Title

La zingarella (The Madonna and Child with a Rabbit)

Date

19th C

Medium

oil on board

Measurements

H 16 x W 13.5 cm

Accession number

732360

Acquisition method

gift from Sir Henry Hugh Arthur Hoare along with the estate, house and its contents, 1946

Work type

Painting

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National Trust, Stourhead

Stourton, Warminster, Wiltshire BA12 6QD England

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