1962.158: Madonna and Child

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1962.158

People

Mello da Gubbio, Italian (1425 - 1450)
Previously attributed to Guiduccio Palmerucci, Italian (1280 - c.1349)

Title

Madonna and Child

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

15th century

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/228227

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Tempera and gold on panel

Dimensions

128.3 × 64.5 cm (50 1/2 × 25 3/8 in.)
frame: 140.5 × 78.5 × 7.5 cm (55 5/16 × 30 7/8 × 2 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Contini Bonacossi, Rome, 1926, sold; to Samuel H. Kress, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Accession Year

1962

Object Number

1962.158

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Raimond Van Marle, "Drei Madonnen des Guidouccio Palmerucci", Belvedere: Monasschrift fur Sammler und Kunstfreunde (November 1927), pp. 140-141, repr.
• "Accessions and Notes", The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin (New York, March 1928), Vol. 23, No. 3, pp. 91-92, repr.
• Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of places, The Clarendon Press (Oxford, England, 1932), p. 413
• Harry B. Wehle, A Catalogue of Italian, Spanish, and Byzantine Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, 1940), p. 82, repr.
• Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Italian Schools XVI-XVIII Century, Phaidon Press (London, 1966), pp. 55-56, repr. as fig. 132
• Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, A List of the Principal Artists and their Works with an Index of Places: Central and North Italian Schools, Phaidon (London, 1968), Vol. I, p. 312
• 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. 155 [as by Guiduccio Palmerucci]
• 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)
• Giordana Benazzi, Elvio Lunghi, and Enrica Neri Lusanna, Gubbio al Tempo di Giotto: Tesori d'Arte nella Terra di Oderisi, exh. cat., Fabrizio Fabbri editore (Perugia, 2018), pp. 81-82, 85, repr. p. 82 as fig. 12

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