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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1923.35
People
Bernardo Daddi, Italian, Florentine (active c. 1280 - 1348)
Title
The Virgin and Child, with Christ Blessing
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1340
Culture
Italian, Tuscan, Florentine
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231398

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on panel
Dimensions
74.5 x 41.5 cm (29 5/16 x 16 5/16 in.)
frame: 112.3 x 44.5 x 8 cm (44 3/16 x 17 1/2 x 3 1/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Beranard Berenson; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, NY, January 1912, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1923.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1923
Object Number
1923.35
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • George Harold Edgell, "The Loan Exhibition of Italian Paintings in the Fogg Museum, Cambridge", Art and Archaeology (July - December 1915), Vol. II, pp. 11-22, p. 11, repr. as fig. 2
  • Osvald Sirén, Giotto and Some of his Followers, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1917), p. 176
  • 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. 61
  • 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. 104, 284, repr. b/w cat. no. 491
  • Richard Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, ed. Miklós Boskovits, Giunti Gruppo Editoriale (Florence, 2001), plate XIX

Exhibition History

  • HAA 1 Survey Course: Landmarks of World Art and Architecture [Spring 2007], Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 02/26/2007 - 04/08/2007
  • HAA 1 Survey Course (S421): Landmarks of World Art and Architecture [Spring 2009], Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/12/2009 - 05/10/2009
  • HAA 1 Survey Course (S421): Landmarks of World Art and Architecture (Spring 2010), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 02/05/2010 - 05/09/2010

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