Object details
Accession number
P15w26
Primary Creator
Bernardo Daddi
(Florence, about 1280 - 1348, Florence)
Full title
Virgin and Child with a Goldfinch
Creation Date
1345-1348
Provenance
Collection of the American art historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959), by 1914.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Thomas Sulley and Co., London for £1400 in April 1914 through Bernard Berenson.
Dimensions
98.2 x 55.6 cm (38 11/16 x 21 7/8 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
Helen Comstock. "The Bernardo Daddis in the United States." International Studio (Feb. 1928), p. 26, 75. (as Bernardo Daddi, about 1346-1347)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 119-121. (as Bernardo Daddi)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 98-99, pl. 13. (as Bernardo Daddi)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 70-72. (as Bernardo Daddi, late 1330s)
Everett Fahy. "Italian Paintings at Fenway Court and Elsewhere." Connoisseur 198 (May 1978), pp. 6-7. (as Bernardo Daddi)
Richard Offner. A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, sec. III, vol. 5 (New York, 1947), pp. 59-61, 71-73, 75, 76, 87, 97, 103, pl. xiii.
Burton B. Fredericksen and Frederico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), p. 61. (as Bernardo Daddi)
Piero Corsini, Inc. Italian Old Master Paintings, Fourteenth to Eighteenth Century. Exh. cat. (New York, 1984), p. 6, under no. 2.
Richard Offner. The Fourteenth Century: The Works of Bernardo Daddi. sec. III, vol. 3 (Florence, 1989), p. 377. (as assistant of Bernardo Daddi)
Erling S. Skaug. Punch Marks from Giotto to Fra Angelico, vol. 1 (Oslo, 1994), p. 102. (as Bernardo Daddi, 1337-1344, most likely at the later part of this range)
Hilliard Goldfarb. Art’s Lament: Creativity in the Face of Death. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1994), pp. 9-10.
Mojmír S Frinta. Punched Decoration: on Late Medieval Panel and Miniature Painting (Prague, 1998), pp. 234, 266, 382. (as Bernardo Daddi)
Laurence Kanter. "Bernardo Daddi, Madonna and Child" in Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Italian Paintings and Drawings Before 1800 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1996-2000). (as Bernardo Daddi, about 1342)
Richard Offner. The Fourteenth Century: Bernardo Daddi and His Circle, sec. III, vol. 5 (Florence, 2001), pp. 32, 173-74, 183-89, 192, 209, 227, 245, 614, pls. xii-xii2. (as assistant of Bernardo Daddi, 1328-1335)
Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Brüggen Israëls. The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at Villa I Tatti (Milan, 2015), p. 741, no. A25. (as Bernardo Daddi, about 1342)
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