Object details
Accession number
P15n13
Primary Creator
Alesso di BenozzoAlesso di Benozzo
(Florence, 1473 - 1528)
Full title
The Crucifixion
Creation Date
about 1500
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealer Antonio Grandi, Milan for 1500 lire on 14 September 1906. (as Florentine)
Marks
Inscribed on rectangular label (verso): 1395
Inscribed on oval label (verso): no 6431 / gg
Inscribed on rectangular label (verso): no 1315h (sic) / no
Dimensions
45.7 x 31.8 cm (18 x 12 1/2 in.)
Display Media
Tempera on panel
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Early Italian Room
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court (Boston, 1920), p. 5. (as Matteo da Gualdo Tadino)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 216-17. (as Il Maestro Esiguo)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 94. (as Il Maestro Esiguo)
Bernard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places. Florentine School 1 (London, 1963), p. 2. (as Alunno di Benozzo)
Burton B. Fredericksen and Frederico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), p. 128. (as the Master Esiguo)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 174. (as Il Maestro Esiguo)
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