Object details
Object number
P16w21
Creator(s)
Francesco Botticini
(Florence, 1446 - 1497, Florence)
Title
Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
Date
about 1471-1474
Medium
Tempera on panel
Dimensions
72.2 x 53.9 cm (28 7/16 x 21 1/4 in.)
Additional Dimensions
Picture surface: 67 x 47.3 cm (26 3/8 x 18 5/8 in.)
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealers Lawrie & Co., London on 22 July 1901 for £1600 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. 8. (as Botticini)
Ernst Kühnel. Francesco Botticini (Strasbourg, 1906), p. 12. no. 16a. (as Botticini with perhaps another hand)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 72-74. (as Botticini, probably 1480)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 119. (as Botticini)
Morris Carter. "Mrs. Gardner & The Treasures of Fenway Court" in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), pp. 59-60, ill. (as Botticini)
Sylvia Sprigge. Berenson a Biography (Boston, 1960), pp. 183-85.
Bernard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places. Florentine School 1 (London, 1963), p. 39. (as Botticini)
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 9, no. 37 (15 May 1966), p. 2. (excerpting Sylvia Sprigge, pp. 138-85).
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), p. 34. (as Botticini)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 45. (as Botticini, dated 1480)
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), pp. 259-62, 264-66, 268-69.
Lisa Venturini. Francesco Botticini (Florence, 1994), pp. 55 n. 88, 110-11, 157, no. 29, fig. 33. (as Botticini with restoration)
Laurence Kanter in Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Botticelli’s Witness: Changing Style in a Changing Florence. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1997), pp. 44-45, cat. 5. (as Botticini, dated about 1470-1480)
Laurence Kanter in Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Italian Paintings and Drawings Before 1800 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1996-2000). (as Botticini, dated about 1471-1474)
Cynthia Saltzman. Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures (New York: Penguin Books, 2008), p. 89.
Gallery
Raphael Room
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