Venetian abbey buys northern Renaissance devotional oil

Turin dealership Caretto & Occhinegro Gallery has sold a previously unpublished oil by Jan Matsys (c.1510-75) to the Abbey of San Giorgio Maggiore in Venice.

Praying Virgin, 17 x 22in (44 x 56cm), dates to 1552 and comes from a German collection.

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