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European Art
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
Artist: Taddeo Gaddi, Italian, Florence, ca. 1300–1366
The Lamentation over the Dead Christ
ca. 1335–40
Tempera on panel
116 × 76.3 × 1.8 cm (45 11/16 × 30 1/16 × 11/16 in.)
University Purchase from James Jackson Jarves
1871.8
Geography:
Made in Florence, Italy
Status:
On view
Culture:
Italian, Florence
Period:
14th century
Classification:
Paintings
Provenance:
James Jackson Jarves Collection, Florence, to 1871; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.
Bibliography:
Mrs. Francis Steegmuller, The Two Lives of James Jackson Jarves (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1951), 294.
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 599.
Clay M. Dean, A Selection of Early Italian Paintings from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2003), 24–25, no. 5.
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.
