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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1962.277
People
Fra Angelico, Italian (nr. Vecchio, Italy c. 1400 - 1455 Rome, Italy)
Previously attributed to Zanobi Strozzi, Italian (1412 - 1468)
Previously attributed to Masolino, Italian (1383-c. 1447)
Title
The Virgin and Child
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Madonna and Child
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1430
Culture
Italian, Tuscan, Florentine
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228279

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on panel
Dimensions
40.32 x 30.8 cm (15 7/8 x 12 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Professor Venturi. Elia Volpi, sold [through American Art Association, New York, November 27, 1916, lot 991 as by Masolino]; to Arthur Kinglsey Porter, by descent; to Lucy Wallace Porter, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Lucy Wallace Porter
Accession Year
1962
Object Number
1962.277
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Illustrated Catalogue of the Exceedingly Rare and Valuable Art Treasures and Antiquities Formerly Contained in the Famous Davanzati Palace..., auct. cat., American Art Association (New York, November 21, 1916), cat. no. 991, repr. and misnumbered as 992
  • 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. 9
  • David Kolch, "Reconstruction System for Panel Painting Supports: A Review and Evaluation of Treatments in the Fogg Museum Laboratory, 1927-1952" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies , August 1977), Unpublished, pp. 1-60 passim
  • 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)
  • Roberta Ferrazza, Palazzo Davanzati e le collezioni di Elia Volpi, Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze (Florence, 1994), pp. 215, 274
  • Laurence Kanter and Pia Palladino, Fra Angelico, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 2005), no. 14, pp. 91-92, repr. in color

Exhibition History

  • Fra Angelico, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/24/2005 - 01/30/2006

Verification Level

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