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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1962.160
People
Filippo Lippi, Italian (Florence, Italy c. 1406 - 1469 Spoleto, Italy)
Previously attributed to Francesco Botticini, Italian (Florence, Italy 1446 - 1497 Florence, Italy)
Title
The Virgin Mary
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
15th century
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Florence
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228256

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera and mixed media on cradled panel
Dimensions
42 x 33.4 cm (16 9/16 x 13 1/8 in.)
frame: 68.1 x 53.3 x 13.8 cm (26 13/16 x 21 x 5 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: on panel removed from back of work: Lippi, Fra Filippo, Copy of / K516 / Head of the Madonna / Panel 16 3/8 x 13 1/8 (0.42 x 0.33) / Kress Collection 1938
  • exhibition label: on panel removed from back of work: National Gallery of Art / Washington DC / No. 407 / Year 1939 / Artist: Lippi, Fra Filippo / Title: Head of the Madonna.
  • inscription: stencilled on back of frame: 516
  • inscription: on back of frame in white chalk: NG407
  • label: on back of frame, handwritten in blue pencil: K516
  • inscription: on back of frame in graphite: [measurements]
  • inscription: on cradle, in ballpoint pen: 516 / 516
  • inscription: on cradle in blue crayon: [crossed out:] 10724F
  • inscription: on cradle in blue pencil: [crossed out:] #9737F

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Eugene Pilot, Paris, acquired in Italy, 1838. Louis Charles Timbal, Paris. Gustave Dreyfus, Paris, by 1908 until at least 1918. [1] Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1938, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962

Notes
[1] Dreyfus Collection is featured in 1908 Les Arts article and in Reinach text in 1918

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of The Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Accession Year
1962
Object Number
1962.160
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Gaston Migeon, La Collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, Les Arts (January 1908), p. 2, repr.
  • Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de peintures du moyen age et de la renaissance (1280-1580), Maison Ernest Leroux, Éditeur (Paris, 1918), p. 515
  • Italian Renaissance Portraits, exh. cat., M. Knoedler & Co. (New York, 1940), p. 6, cat. no. 3
  • The Art News, March 16, 1940, repr. on cover
  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1945), p.34, repr.
  • 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)
  • Meryle Secrest, Duveen, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, NY, 2004), pp. 254, 457

Exhibition History

  • Italian Renaissance Portraits, M. Knoedler & Co., 03/18/1940 - 04/06/1940

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