1920.36.B: Saint Verdiana Carrying Food to the Poor
Paintings1943.53.75
Crowned Bodhisattva, Probably Taeseji Posal (Bodhisattva Mahasthamaprapta), Standing on a Heptagonal, Double-Lotus Base, the Bodhisattva's Right Hand Raised, the Left Hand Lowered
1943.53.72
Buddha Standing on an Octagonal, Double-Lotus Base with His Right Hand Raised in the Abhaya-mudra and His Left Hand Lowered in the Varada-mudra, Probably the Buddha Shakyamuni (Sŏk'kamoni Yŏrae)
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1920.36.B
- People
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Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani, Italian (Florence 1660 - 1731 Florence)
- Title
- Saint Verdiana Carrying Food to the Poor
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- c. 1711
- Culture
- Italian, Tuscan, Florentine
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/231386
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 44.8 x 29.8 cm (17 5/8 x 11 3/4 in.)
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Denman Waldo Ross, Cambridge, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1920
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Denman W. Ross
- Accession Year
- 1920
- Object Number
- 1920.36.B
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 180
- Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), pp. 128, 352, repr. b/w cat. no. 754
Verification Level
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