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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1958.294
People
Attributed to Neri di Bicci, Italian (Florence 1418 - 1492 Florence)
Title
Nativity
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
15th century
Culture
Italian, Tuscan, Florentine
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/228621

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on wood panel
Dimensions
21.8 × 69.6 cm (8 9/16 × 27 3/8 in.)
frame: 24 × 71.7 cm (9 7/16 × 28 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, black ink: 143

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
German collector, sold; to [Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York], sold; to Mrs. L. Ormos [Dr. Lillian Malcove], New York, NY, November 26, 1949, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1958.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Lillian Malcove
Accession Year
1958
Object Number
1958.294
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, Phaidon Press (London, 1963), p. 153
  • 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. 147
  • 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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