Object details
Object number
P16e7
Creator(s)
Francesco Francia
(Bologna, about 1450 - 1517, Bologna)
Title
Virgin and Child on a Parapet with a Goldfinch
Date
1510-1517
Medium
Oil and tempera on poplar panel
Dimensions
58.7 x 49.5 cm (23 1/8 x 19 1/2 in.)
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the dealer Emilio Costantini, Florence on 25 May 1899 for 20,000 lire through Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), American art historian.
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.
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 12. (as Il Francia)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 145-48. (as Il Francia)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 116. (as Il Francia)
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, 1972), p. 74. (as studio of Francesco Francia)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 91-93. (as Il Francia)
Juliette Laffon. Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures. Musée du Petit Palais (Paris, 1981), vol. I, under no. 380. (as attributed to the studio of Francesco Francia)
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), pp. 176-7, 179. (as Francesco Francia)
Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Italian Paintings and Drawings Before 1800 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1996-2000). (as Francesco Francia)
Gallery
Raphael Room
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