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MWW Artwork of the Day (6/11/26) Attributed to Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis (Milanese, c. 1455–c. 1508) Girl with Cherries (c. 1491–95) Oil on wood, 48.9 x 37.5 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (Gift of Henry G. Marquand)
Ambrogio, who was born in Preda, gained a reputation as a portraitist, including as a painter of miniatures, for the court of Ludovico Sforza. Trained in Milan, he was associated after 1483 with Leonardo da Vinci, with whom he collaborated. The careful study of the positions of the hands and the enigmatic, slight smile both come from Leonardo's example. The painting is sometimes thought to be by another of his followers.
