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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1930.194
People
Bernardino Luini, Italian (Milan, Italy c. 1480 - c. 1532 Milan, Italy)
Title
Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Madonna and Child with Infant St. John the Baptist
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1520-c. 1525
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231288

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel
Dimensions
85.4 x 63.2 cm (33 5/8 x 24 7/8 in.)
framed: 113.3 x 91.4 cm (44 5/8 x 36 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower left corner, dark yellow paint: PEPQ. S. P.
  • inscription: verso, top left, white chalk: NAVM / Le[illegible]
  • label: verso, lower right: 3235
  • label: verso, top right, handwritten text in faint red: VIRGIN + CHILD / FROM NAUMBURG RM
  • label: verso, lower left corner, handwritten text in red pen: 6 Luini
  • label: verso, top left corner, mostly removed: [illeg.] SON / [illeg.] ON S / [illeg.] 89 [?]
  • label: verso, right: No.17,069 / FRAME / 1930.194

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), London, by descent; to Paulina Jackson (1640-1689), his sister, by descent; to Frances Jackson, her daughter, by descent; to Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1754-1827), her son, by descent; to Charles Robert Cockerell (1788-1863), his son, by descent; to Frederick Pepys Cockerell (1833-1878), his son, by descent; to Mary Pepys Cockerell (née Mulock) (1838-1931), his wife, sold; to [Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, December 24, 1901], sold; to Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian, London (1869-1955) on July 19, 1904; returned to [Agnew & Sons on December 31, 1904], sold; to [Alexandre Imbert on June 8, 1905]. George Clifford Thomas (1839-1909), Philadelphia, by 1907, sold [through his sale, Samuel T. Freeman & Co., Philadelphia, November 12-13, 1924, lot 64]; to Leonard M. Thomas (1878-1937), New York, sold; to [Ehrich Galleries, New York, 1926], sold; to Aaron and Nettie Naumburg, 1929, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1930

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Nettie G. Naumburg
Accession Year
1930
Object Number
1930.194
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de Peintures du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance (1280-1580), Ernest Leroux (Paris, 1905), p. 220, repr.
  • A Collection of Paintings Owned by George C. Thomas, Philadelphia, De Vinne Press, New York (New York, 1907), p. 3 (no. 1)
  • Luca Beltrami, Luini (1512-1532), Tipografia U. Allegretti (Milan, 1911), pp. 525-526, repr. p. 540
  • The George C. Thomas Collection of Oil Paintings by the Great Master of the English and Barbizon Schools, auct. cat. (Philadelphia, 1924), no. 64, repr.
  • Martin Davies, The Earlier Italian Schools, exh. cat. (London, 1951), under cat. no. 3935, pp. 248-289 (n. 3)
  • Angela Ottino della Chiesa, Bernardino Luini, Istituto Geografico de Agostini-Novara (Novara, Italy, 1956), cat. no. 26, p. 69, repr. fig. 99, under cat. no. 83, p. 83, and p. 35
  • Martin Davies, The Earlier Italian Schools, exh. cat. (London, 1961), under cat. no. 3935, p. 320 (n. 4)
  • Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, A List of the Principal Artists and their Works with an Index of Places: Central and North Italian Schools, Phaidon (London, 1968), Vol. I, p. 227
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), pp. 113, 337, 568
  • 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), pp. 117, 327, repr. b/w cat. no. 659
  • Cristina Quattrini, Bernardino Luini: Catalogo generale delle opere, Allemandi (Turin, 2019), no. 124, repr. (as "follower[?] of Luini"
  • Virginia Brilliant, Faithful to Nature: Eleven Lombard Paintings, 1530-1760, exh. cat., Nicholas Hall (New York, 2019), p. 113

Exhibition History

  • Art of the Renaissance in Lombardy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/28/1988 - 07/24/1988
  • Re-View: S422-423 Western Art of the Middle Ages & Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/16/2008 - 06/18/2011

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

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Verification Level

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