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Pieter de Witte detto Pietro Candido

Madonna with Child, Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist

Biography of Pietro Candido

Peter de Witte, known in Italy as Pietro Candido and in Bavaria as Peter Candid (1548 - 1628), was a Mannerist painter of Flemish origin, a tapestry designer, active in Italy and Bavaria. He worked at the Medici court in Florence and at the Bavarian court of Duke Wilhelm V and his successor Maximilian I in Munich.

The work

Madonna with Child, Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist

cm 124 x 95.5 (with original Medici frame, cm 165.5 x 135)