Virgin and Child with a Goldfinch

Artist: Luca di Tommè (Siena, documented 1356–89)

ca. 1365–70

European Art

Not on view
Medium

Tempera and gold on panel

Dimensions

25 13/16 × 18 1/4 in. (65.6 × 46.3 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Richard L. Feigen, B.A. 1952

Accession Number

2020.75.9

Culture

Italian, Siena

Period

14th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, March 16, 1966, lot 27; “Salocchi”; with Vittore Frascione, Florence, 1968–69; private collection, Italy, and by descent; sale, Bonhams, London, July 3, 2013, lot 55; Richard L. Feigen (1930–2021), New York; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2020






Bibliography
  • Sherwood A. Fehm, Jr., Luca di Tommè: A Sienese Fourteenth-Century Painter (Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, 1986), 165, no. 64
  • Cristina de Benedictis, La pittura senese, 1330–1370 (Florence: Salimbeni, 1979), 38, 66, 89
  • Sherwood A. Fehm, Jr., "Luca di Tommè’s Influence on Three Sienese Masters: The Master of the Magdalene Legend, the Master of the Panzano Triptych, and the Master of the Pietà," Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 20 (1976), 348
  • Mina Gregori, "Dipinti e sculture: Biennale Internazionale dell’Antiquariato, Firenze," Arte illustrata 2 (1969), 112
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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