1929.10: Virgin and Child

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1929.10

People

After Desiderio da Settignano, Italian (Settignano, Italy 1428 - 1464 Florence, Italy)
Polychrome decoration and frame by Neri di Bicci, Italian (Florence 1418 - 1492 Florence)

Title

Virgin and Child

Classification

Sculpture

Work Type

sculpture, relief

Date

after 1450

Culture

Italian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/231161

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Polychromed and gilded stucco

Technique

Relief

Dimensions

111 x 75 x 16 cm (43 11/16 x 29 1/2 x 6 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Bernard Berenson, Villa I Tatti, Florence, gift; to Grenville Lindall Winthrop, New York, NY, 1909, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1929.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886

Accession Year

1929

Object Number

1929.10

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

In engaged wooden frame. Bottom of frame shows a scene of St. Jerome and lion in cave, coats of arms on either side. Angels in relief at upper band of frame. Large metal ring at upper center for hanging.

Publication History

• Ida Cardellini, Desiderio da Settignano, Edizioni di Comunità (Milan, Italy, 1962), p. 286 and fig. 373
• Megan Holmes, "Neri di Bicci and the Commodification of Artistic Values in Florentine Painting (1450-1500)", The Art Market in Italy, 15th-17th centuries, ed. Marcello Fantoni, ISR (Ferrara, Italy, 2003), pp. 213-223, p. 220, fig. XVI-10
• Marc Bormand, Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi, and Nicholas Penny, ed., Desiderio da Settignano: Sculptor of Renaissance Florence, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art and Musée du Louvre Éditions (Washington, D.C., 2007), p. 206

Exhibition History

• Berenson and the Connoisseurship of Italian Painting, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/10/1974 - 11/11/1974
• HAA 10 Survey Course: The Western Tradition, Art Since the Renaissance, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 03/08/2008 - 04/06/2008
• HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 08 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/23/2008 - 11/16/2008
• HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 09 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/16/2009 - 11/08/2009
• HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 10 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 10/15/2010 - 11/06/2010
• HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 11 Rotation 2), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 10/07/2011 - 11/05/2011
• 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 02/13/2015; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 02/11/2015 - 05/10/2015

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