Putto Picking Grapes

Putto Picking Grapes from 1523 by Luini at the Wallace Collection is a decorative fragment from a larger fresco composition. Luini was one of the leading fresco painters in Milan, decorating churches and villas with cycles that combined Leonardesque figure style with ornamental richness Oil on canvas, increasingly preferred over panel in the sixteenth century, offered greater flexibility for large-scale compositions The work is now in the collection of Wallace Collection in London.

The playful putto is rendered with naturalistic charm, the grapes and vine tendrils painted with the decorative richness that characterizes Luini's ornamental work.