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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1941.132
People
Benvenuto di Giovanni, Italian (1436 - c. 1518)
Title
The Virgin and Child with Angels
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1475
Culture
Italian, Tuscan, Sienese
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230685

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on cradled panel
Dimensions
66 x 41.8 cm (26 x 16 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: back of frame, black pencil, handwritten: 9059
  • inscription: back of frame, blue pencil, handwritten: [crossed out in black pencil:] 1290

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Mrs. Felix M. Warburg, 1941.
Contini-Bonacossi,, Rome, sold, 1927.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Felix M. Warburg in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of Mr. Felix M. Warburg's birth
Accession Year
1941
Object Number
1941.132
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. 25
  • 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. 103, under C28aN (reference to frame)

Verification Level

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