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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1959.34
People
Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio), Italian (1405 - 1481)
Title
Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels
Other Titles
Former Title: Madonna and Child
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
15th century
Culture
Italian, Tuscan, Sienese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228579

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on panel
Dimensions
76.3 x 49.9 cm (30 1/16 x 19 5/8 in.)
frame: 83.1 x 55.4 x 7 cm (32 11/16 x 21 13/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: on back of panel, handwritten in black: #3

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of The Felix M. and Frieda Schiff Warburg Foundation
Accession Year
1959
Object Number
1959.34
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • 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. 181
  • 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)

Verification Level

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