In a dim grotto of jagged rock, Mary draws the infant John the Baptist close with one arm and holds her other hand over the Christ Child, who blesses him, while the angel Uriel looks out at us. Generally held to be the earlier of Leonardo's two versions, it probably relates to a 1483 Milan commission. Soft sfumato shadow binds figures and rocks together.
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Uriel points at John, a gesture Leonardo dropped from the later London version. The plants at the figures' feet are painted with a botanist's care.
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