Object details

Accession number

S27e7

Primary Creator

Antonio Rossellino (1427 - 1479)

Full title

Virgin and Child

Creation Date

before 1888

Provenance

Possibly from the convent of Sant'Augostino, Ventimiglia.

Purchased by the art dealer and collector Sir George Donaldson (1845-1925), London from an unknown dealer before 1888.

Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Sir George Donaldson, London for £1,300 on 17 August 1888.

Dimensions

95 x 61.5 x 25.5 cm (37 3/8 x 24 3/16 x 10 1/16 in.)

Display Media

Marble

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

Long Gallery

Bibliography

Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters, and by Deceased Masters of the British School; Including a Collection of Sculpture, Bronzes, Medals, and Plaquettes, Chiefly of the Renaissance Period. Exh. Cat. (London: Royal Academy of Arts, Winter 1888), p. 42, no. 30. (as Antonio Rossellino)
Claude Phillips. "Marmi e Bronzi del Rinascimento Italiano." Archivo Storico dell'Arte I (1888), p. 100. ("Nothing in the collection [at the Royal Academy exhibition] is in the hand of Rossellino, although two works are of much lower quality...")
Art Exhibition: Mrs. John L. Gardner, 152 Beacon St., Boston. Exh. cat. (Boston, 1899), p. 1, no. 1. (as Antonio Rosellino)
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 23. (as Antonio Rossellino)
Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), pp. 110-11. (as erroneously attributed to Rossellino)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 234. (as by an imitator of Antonio Rossellino, possibly the nineteenth century artist Giovanni Bastianini)
John Pope-Hennessy. "The Forging of Italian Renaissance Sculpture." Apollo (1974), pp. 253-55, fig. 41. (as Florentine, 2nd half of the 19th century)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 169 , no. 215. (catalouged under "doubtful authenticity"; as Italian, 19th century; imitator of Antonio Rossellino)

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