1958.284: The Virgin and Child

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1958.284

People

Francesco di Giorgio Martino, called Francesco di Giorgio, Italian (1439 - 1501)

Title

The Virgin and Child

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Madonna and Child

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1468-1470

Culture

Italian, Tuscan, Sienese

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/228590

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

46.5 x 28.6 cm (18 5/16 x 11 1/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs

Accession Year

1958

Object Number

1958.284

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loan Exhibition of the Arts of the Italian Renaissance, exh. cat. (New York, 1923), p. 7, cat. no. 20, repr.
• 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. 73
• 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)
• Mojmír S. Frinta, Punched Decoration on Late Medieval Panel and Miniature Painting, Maxdorf Publishers (Prague, Czechoslovakia, 1998), p. 54, under Ad16b; p. 110, under CC28b

Exhibition History

• Loan Exhibition of the Arts of the Italian Renaissance, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 05/08/1923 - 09/01/1923

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