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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.103
People
Workshop of Giovanni Bellini, Italian (c. 1459 - 1516 Venice, Italy)
Title
The Virgin and Child
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1480
Culture
Italian, Venetian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230276

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
72.7 x 54.9 cm (28 5/8 x 21 5/8 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.103
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Bernard Berenson and Frederic Fairchild Sherman, Venetian Painting in America: The Fifteenth Century (New York, NY, 1916), pp. 78-81, repr. in b/w
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Loan Exhibition of the Arts of the Italian Renaissance, exh. cat. (New York, 1923), p. 13, cat. no. 42, repr.
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance; A List of the Principal Artists and their Works, with an Index of Places, Venetian School, Phaidon Press (London, 1957), p. 30
  • 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. 22
  • 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)
  • Vittorio Sgarbi, Carpaccio, Abbeville Press (New York, 1994), pp. 197, 242, 265, repr. p. 242 [caption incorrectly switched with National Gallery painting]

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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