1977.187: Virgin and Child with Angels

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1977.187

People

Francesco di Simone Ferrucci, Italian (Fiesole 1437 - 1493 Florence)
Previously attributed to Francesco di Simone da Santacroce, Italian (c. 1440 - 1508 Venice)
Previously attributed to Desiderio da Settignano, Italian (Settignano, Italy 1428 - 1464 Florence, Italy)
Previously attributed to the Master of the Marble Madonnas (Florence)

Title

Virgin and Child with Angels

Other Titles

Former Title: Madonna and Child with Winged Cherubs

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture, figure

Date

c. 1470

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/227475

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Marble

Technique

Carved

Dimensions

113 x 77 x 10 cm (44 1/2 x 30 5/16 x 3 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: verso, graphite: [illegible text] / [illegible text] / [illegible text] / 1858 May
• inscription: verso, graphite: 94
• inscription: graphite, removed in 1978 per documentation: 55299 [French & Co. stock number]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

?Ospedale di Santa Maria Maddalena, Volterra. [2] ?Palazzo Inghirami Collection, Volterra. [Giuseppe Pacini, Florence], circa 1937. [1] [French and Co., New York, NY] sold; to Katherine Deere Butterworth, Moline, Illinois, sold [through Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, October 21-23, 1954, lot 330 (as attributed to Desiderio da Settignano)]. Sold [through French and Co., New York, NY, 1968]. Sold [through Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, NY, November 14, 1968, lot 94 (as attributed to Master of the Marble Madonnas)]; to Landon T. Clay, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1977

Notes
[1] The circa 1937 date derives from image 114508 at the Fotothek des Kunsthistorischen Instituts in Florenz- Max Planck Institut. The photograph was added in 1937 with the Pacini annotation.

[2] See "Per il 'Maestro delle Madonne di marmo': una rilettura ed una proposta di identificazione," Prospettiva, No. 106/107, April-July 2002.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Landon T. Clay

Accession Year

1977

Object Number

1977.187

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• French Furniture and Works of Art of the XVIII Century, auct. cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (October 21-23, 1954), pp. 78-79; p. 79, repr. as cat. no. 330
• Medieval, Renaissance and Eighteenth Century Works of Art, auct. cat., Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. (November 14, 1968), pp. 34-35, cat. no. 94, repr.
• Stephan Wolohojian, "Francesco di Simone Ferrucci's Fogg 'Virgin and Child' and the Martini Chapel in S. Giobbe, Venice", Burlington Magazine (1997), CXXXIX, p. 867-869. p. 868, fig. 43
• Francesco Caglioti, "Su Isaia da Pisa. Due 'Angeli reggicandelabro' in Santa Sabina all'Aventino e l'altare eucaristico del Cardinal d'Estouteville per Santa Maria Maggiore", Prospettiva (January - April 1998), No. 89/90, pp. 125-160, p. 145
• Rolf Bagemihl, "An Ensemble by Antonio Rossellino and Andrea Della Robbia Recovered: A Tabernacle and Statue for a Confraternity at Volterra", Studi di Storia dell'Arte (1999), Vol. 10, pp. 37-70, p. 42
• Patricia Lee Rubin and Alison Wright, Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s, exh. cat., National Gallery Publications/Yale University Press (London, England, 1999), repr. as fig. 87, p. 112
• Linda Pisani, "Per il 'Maestro dell Madonne di marmo': una rilettura ed una proposta di identificazione", Prospettiva (April-August 2002), No. 106/107, pp. 144-165, pp. 147-148, 162, repr. p. 162 as fig. 33
• Alfredo Bellandi, Gregorio di Lorenzo: il Maestro delle Madonne di marmo, Morbio Inferiore: Selective Art (Marmo, 2010), pp. 31, 107, 330, no. III.1.39, repr. pp. 31, 330

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