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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1939.100
People
Vincenzo Foppa, Italian (Bagnola, Italy 1427 - 1516 Brescia, Italy)
Title
The Virgin and Child Enthroned
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1500-1510
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Lombardy, Brescia
Culture
Italian, Lombard, Brescian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230779

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera and oil on panel
Dimensions
sight: 38.4 x 25.5 cm (15 1/8 x 10 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: backing board, black ink, printed: 257
  • label: backing board, black ink, printed: [ ]VEN[ ] DIGIULIO [ ]MB[ ]
  • label: backing board, black ink and graphite, printed and handwritten: [printed in black ink:] TC [or CT, in monogram]; handwritten in graphite: 1179

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1939
Object Number
1939.100
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • "Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886", Bulletin of the Fogg Art Museum, ed. Edward Waldo Forbes, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1939), vol. 9, no. 1, November, p. 19, p. 19
  • 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. 72
  • 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)
  • Elena V. Shabliy, ed., Representations of the Blessed Virgin Mary in World Literature and Art, Lexington Books (Lanham, Maryland, 2017), repr. on p. 33
  • Virginia Brilliant, Faithful to Nature: Eleven Lombard Paintings, 1530-1760, exh. cat., Nicholas Hall (New York, 2019), p. 111

Verification Level

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