Virgin and Child | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1330

Not on view

Medium: Tempera and gold on panel
Dimensions: overall: 31 1/8 × 20 11/16 in. (79.1 × 52.5 cm)
picture surface: 28 3/4 × 14 9/16 in. (73 × 37 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896
Accession Number: 1943.204
Geography: Made in Florence, Italy
Culture: Italian, Florence
Period: 14th century
Classification: Paintings
Disclaimer: 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 records is ongoing.

Provenance

Elia Volpi (1858–1938), Florence, by 1922; Maitland Fuller Griggs (1872–1943), New York, 1924;Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Christine Sciacca, ed., Florence at the dawn of the Renaissance: painting and illumination, 1300–1350 (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2012), 386–7, fig. 59

Richard Offner and Miklos Boskovits, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting. The Fourteenth Century, 2, section 3 (Florence: Giunti, 1987), 221, 225–26, add. pl. 5

Richard Fremantle, Florentine Gothic painters from Giotto to Masaccio: a guide to painting in and near Florence, 1300 to 1450 (London: Secker & Warburg, 1975), fig. 28

Miklos Boskovits, Pittura fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, 1370–1400 (Florence, Italy: Edam, 1975), 11

Charles Seymour Jr. et al., Italian Primitives: The Case History of a Collection and Its Conservation (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1972), 37, no. 26

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972), 600

Charles Seymour Jr., Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1970), 55, 57, no. 38

Dorothy C. Shorr, The Christ Child in Devotional Images in Italy During the XIV century (New York: George Wittenborn Inc., 1954), 142, 145

Giulia Sinibaldi and Giulia Brunetti, eds., Pittura italiana del duecento e trecento: Catalogo della mostra giottesca di Firenze del 1937 (Florence: Sansoni, 1943), 415, no. 129

Mostra giottesca, exh. cat. (Bergamo, Italy: Instituto Italiano d’Arti Grafiche, 1937), 49, no. 133

Lionello Venturi, Pitture italiane in America (Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1931), pl. 29

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Object/Work type

religious art

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