The Adoration of the Christ Child with Saints Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata,Tobias and the Angel, Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness and the Penitent Saint Jerome

Andrea del Verrocchio's Adoration of the Christ Child with Saints at Yale University Art Gallery, painted around 1467, is among the rare surviving panel paintings by the sculptor, goldsmith, and workshop master who trained Leonardo da Vinci, Perugino, Lorenzo di Credi, and other foundational figures of the Italian Renaissance. Verrocchio ran the most prestigious workshop in Florence during the 1470s and 1480s — a production center for sculpture, painting, and goldsmithing — and his panel paintings are correspondingly rare because the majority of work produced there was either collaborative or by his gifted pupils. This Yale Adoration, depicting the Christ Child adored by saints including Francis of Assisi receiving the stigmata, Tobias and the Angel, John the Baptist in the wilderness, and the penitent Jerome, assembles an unusual group of intercessors that suggests a specific private devotional commission. The Adoration of the Christ Child combined the theological focus on the Incarnation with the intimate appeal of a newborn, making it one of the most accessible of devotional subjects. Yale's acquisition of this rare Verrocchio panel makes it among the most significant examples of his painting in any American collection.

This work demonstrates Early Renaissance painting techniques.