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Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Artist: Desiderio da Settignano, Italian, 1429/32–1464
Artist: Neri di Bicci, Italian, Florence, 1419–1492/93
Virgin and Child
ca. 1460–65
Polychrome and gilt stucco
unframed: 41.91 × 34.131 cm (16 1/2 × 13 7/16 in.)
Purchased with a gift from Nina Griggs
2006.231.1
Status:
On view
Culture:
Italian
Period:
15th century
Classification:
Sculpture
Provenance:
Property from the Estate of Hugo and Ruth Klotz (Christie's, New York, 9/28/06, Lot # 131).
Bibliography:
Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 217, 392–93, pl. 205.
“Acquisitions 2009,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2009): 159, ill.
Laurence Kanter, Bruno Mottin, and Rita Piccione Albertson, Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio’s Studio, Early Paintings and New Attributions, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2018), 79, fig. 57.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.
