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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1963.127
People
Imitator of Coppo di Marcovaldo, Italian (active 1250 - after 1276)
Title
The Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1875-1925
Culture
Italian?
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228291

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Wood panel
Dimensions
120 x 60 cm (47 1/4 x 23 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Marchesa di Bagno, Rome [1]. [D'Atri, Paris] sold; to [Duveen Brothers, Paris, 1937], transferred; to [Duveen Brothers, New York], sold; to Samuel H. Kress, 1940, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1963

Notes
[1] Per "National Gallery of Art: Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture," 1941, p. 101 and Duveen Records.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of The Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Accession Year
1963
Object Number
1963.127
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Arts of the Middle Ages, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1940), pp. 17-18, cat. no. 50, repr. pl. XLII
  • National Gallery of Art: Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Descriptive List with Notes, National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C., 1941), p. 101, no. 520 as "Madonna and Child with Angels"
  • George Martin Richter, The New National Gallery in Washington, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs (June 1941), Vol. 78, No. 459, p. 177
  • Gertrude Coor, Coppo di Marcovaldo, His Art in Relation to the Art of His Time, New York University (Marsyas, 1947-1949), Vol. 5, pp. 1-21, p. 12
  • Federico Zeri, Dietro l'immagine: Conversazioni sull' arte di leggere l'arte, Longanesi & Co. (Milan, 1987), pp. 182-183, repr. p. 183 as fig. 17
  • 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), p. 422

Exhibition History

  • Arts of the Middle Ages, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 02/17/1940 - 03/24/1940

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