Object details
Accession number
P16w15
Primary Creator
Italian, Northern Italy
Full title
The Virgin and Child in the Clouds
Creation Date
about 1470
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner's husband, John L. Gardner, Jr. (1837-1898), from the antiques dealer Vincenzo Favenza, Venice for 2,500 lire in November 1892. (as Antonio della Corona)
Gift to Isabella Stewart Gardner from her husband, December 1892.
Dimensions
93 x 67 cm (36 5/8 x 26 3/8 in.)
Display Media
Tempera and oil 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
Raphael Room
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 8. (as by Francesco Squarcione, dated about 1430; "signed and dated")
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 55-56, ill. (as possibly by Bono da Ferrara, 1442-1461)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 119-120.
Bernard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places (New York, 1968), p. 318. (as by Parentino (Bernardo Parenzo,1437-1531))
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, 1972), p. 324, 235, 562. (as Paduan, dated 15th century)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 156-58, ill. (as influenced by Mantegna)
Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), pp. 17-18, fig. 16. (as Italian, dated about 1470)
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