1965.93: Saint Nicholas of Bari

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.93

People

Workshop of Filippo Lippi, Italian (Florence, Italy c. 1406 - 1469 Spoleto, Italy)
Previously attributed to Fra Diamante, Italian (1430 - 1498)

Title

Saint Nicholas of Bari

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1450-1469

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/228020

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

49.6 x 13.7 cm (19 1/2 x 5 3/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: back of inner frame, graphite: [encircled:] 9
• inscription: back of outer frame, graphite: between windows
• label: back of outer frame, black ink, typewritten: [typed:] Fra Filippo Lippi / "Two Saints" / panel. size, each [ ] x 4 7/8 inches / [handwritten in black ink:] 503
• inscription: back of panel, black ink, handwritten: XII
• inscription: back of outer frame, black crayon, handwritten: 3[5?]16

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

One of eighteen panels acquired in Florence in the mid-nineteenth century by Sir John Leslie (1822-1916), 1st Bart., Glaslough House, Monaghan, Northern Ireland; by inheritance to Sir John Leslie (1857-1944), 2nd Bart., Glaslough House, Monaghan, sale; through [Christie's, London, July 9, 1926, no. 129, as Filippino Lippi]; (W. Buckley); Arthur Hamilton Lee (1857-1944), 1st Viscount of Fareham, Old Quarries, Gloucestershire, sold; to Robert Lehman (through Robert Langton Douglas) sold; to Arthur Lehman, 1929, bequeathed; to his wife Adele Lehman, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Adele L. and Arthur Lehman

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.93

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and by Deceased Masters of the British School. Winter Exhibition, 1885, exh. cat. (London, 1885), part of no. 252 or 256
• Catalogue of Old Pictures & Drawings . . ., auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. (London, July 9, 1926), part of lot 129
• "Acquisitions", Acquisitions (Fogg Art Museum), ed. John Coolidge, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1965), pp. 17-58, p. 18, repr. p. 80
• Claus Virch, The Adele and Arthur Lehman Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1965), p. 30, repr.
• Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), pp. 64 [as by Fra Diamante], 106 [as by Fra Filippo Lippi]
• John Pope-Hennessy, The Robert Lehman Collection: Italian Paintings, Metropolitan Museum of Art / Princeton University Press (Princeton, New Jersey, 1987), pp. 176, 178, fig. 76
• Eliot W. Rowlands, "Two Saints from the Workshop of Fra Filippo Lippi, and Their Companion Panels", Bulletin, Georgia Museum of Art (Athens, Georgia, 1990), passim, figs. 3, 20
• 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)
• Jeffrey Ruda, Fra Filippo Lippi: Life and Work with a Complete Catalogue, Phaidon (London, 1993), cat. no. 67d, pl. 354

Exhibition History

• Exhibition of Works by The Old Masters, and by Deceased Masters of the British School: Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, 01/05/1885 - 03/14/1885

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