Object details
Accession number
S19w44
Primary Creator
Italian
Full title
Madonna della Misericordia (Candelabrum)
Creation Date
1582
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the dealer Georges B. Brauer (d. 1935), Florence for £140 on 9 October 1906.
Marks
Inscribed (on the back, in black paint ): 1582
Dimensions
67.5 x 56 x 13 cm (26 9/16 x 22 1/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Display Media
Polychromed and gilded wood
Web Commentary
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Permanent Gallery Location
Tapestry Room
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 167. (as 1582 or slightly later, probably provincial work)
Clara Strauss. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 9, no. 17 (26 Dec. 1965), p. 2. (as 1582 or slightly later, probably provincial work)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), p. 177, no. 246. (as Italian, dated 1582)
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