- Identification and Creation
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- Object Number
- 1962.277
- People
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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
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- Medium
- Tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- 40.32 x 30.8 cm (15 7/8 x 12 1/8 in.)
- Provenance
- 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
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- 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
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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1927-1952" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies , August 1977), Unpublished, pp. 1-60 passim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
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Fra Angelico, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/24/2005 - 01/30/2006
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