Object details
Accession number
P12w24
Primary Creator
Giovanni di Francia
(active 1451-1462)
Full title
Saint Francis
Creation Date
about 1450
Provenance
Possibly in the church of San Giorgio, San Polo di Piave, Veneto. (with a second fresco by the same artist, museum no. P12w20)
Possibly installed on the first floor of Casa dei Battuti, Venice. (with museum no. P12w20)
Purchased from the cabinet maker and antiquarian Antonio Carrer (d. 1912), Venice for about 400 lire on 25 September 1897.
Dimensions
148 x 82.5 cm (58 1/4 x 32 1/2 in.)
Display Media
Tempera on lime plaster (transfered to linen)
Web Commentary
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Permanent Gallery Location
East, North, and West Cloister
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 4. (as Veneto)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 399-400, ill. (as Venetian (?), 1350-1450)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 78. (as Venetian (?), 1350-1450)
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, 1972), p. 246. (as Venetian, 15th century)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 276-77, ill. (as Venetian (?), 1400-1450)
Irene Samessa in Francesca Maronese. Il tempo ritrovo. Restauro di Casa dei Battuti e Ca' Balbi a Oderzo (Padua, 2011), pp. 96-100. (as Venetian (?), 1400-1450; similar to Giovanni di Francia)
Irene Samassa. "Casa dei Battuti di Oderzo: un affresco di Giovanni di Francia ritrovato?" Commentari d'arte. Rivista di critica e storia dell'arte, vol. 18 (2012), p. 68. (as by Giovanni di Francia)
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