Object details
Accession number
S27e34
Primary Creator
Antonio Rossellino
(1427 - 1479)
Full title
Virgin and Child
Creation Date
about 1480
Provenance
Collection of the antiquarian Giuseppe Baslini (d. 1888), Milan.
Purchased by the collector and dealer Michelangelo Guggenheim (1837-1914), Venice at the Baslini sale, lot 965, on 26 November 1888.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Michelangelo Guggenheim, Venice for 1,175 francs on 27 July 1892.
Dimensions
25.5 x 34.5 x 18 cm (10 1/16 x 13 9/16 x 7 1/16 in.)
Display Media
Polychromed stucco (with some gilding in the veil)
Web Commentary
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Permanent Gallery Location
Long Gallery
Bibliography
A. Genolini. Catalogo della Collezione Baslini di Milano... (Milan, 26 November 1888), pp. 76, 78, lot 965, pl. 32. (as school of Donatello)
Art Exhibition: Mrs. John L. Gardner, 152 Beacon St., Boston. Exh. cat. (Boston, 1899), p. 6, no. 8. (as by Donatello)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston: 1935), p. 247. (as probably Florentine, 1st half of the 15th century; school of Ghiberti?)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 112, no. 140. (as workshop of Antonio Rossellino, about 1480)
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