Object details
Accession number
S12s1
Primary Creator
Italian, Venice
Full title
Virgin and Child with the Venier Coat of Arms
Creation Date
1450-1475
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner (as a coat of arms of the Venetian Foscari family) from the antique dealer Consiglio Ricchetti, Venice for 1,600 lire on 2 September 1897.
Dimensions
121.9 x 90.2 x 6 cm (48 x 35 1/2 x 2 3/8 in.)
Display Media
Istrian stone (with traces of polychrome and gilding still visible)
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
East, North, and West Cloister
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 4. (as "Madonna and Child...from a church in the Veneto")
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 79-80. (as a follower of Donatello, later 15th century)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), pp. 132-33, no. 165. (as Venetian, 3rd quarter of the 15th century; the arms as Venier family)
Alberto Rizzi. Scultura Esterna a Venezia: Corpus delle Sculture Erratiche all'aperto di Venezia e della sua Laguna (Venice, 1989), p. 47, fig. 23 (as 3rd quarter of the 15th century; the arms as probably Venier family, possibly those of the Magno or Foscari)
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), p. 186. (as 3rd quarter of the 15th century, the arms as those of the Vernier family)
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