Saint John the Evangelist | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 1330

On view, 2nd floor, European Art

Medium: Tempera, gold, and silver on panel
Dimensions: 41 1/4 × 17 1/2 in. (104.7 × 44.5 cm)
picture surface: 35 5/8 × 17 1/2 in. (90.5 × 44.5 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896
Accession Number: 1943.239
Geography: Made in Siena, Italy
Culture: Italian, Siena
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

Believed to have come from church of San Francesco, Colle Val d'Elsa; Commandatore Giulio Sterbini Collection, Rome; Wildenstein & Co., New York and Paris; purchased by Bernard Berenson from Godefroy Brauer (57 rue Pigalle, Paris) 28 June 1910; Edward Hutton (?-?); Mrs. Benjamin Thaw Collection, New York (by 1917–1922); Mme. X Collection Sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 May 1922; Duveen Brothers, Inc., New York, 1922–1924/25; Maitland F. Griggs Collection, New York (private purchase from Lord Duveen, 1925–1943); Yale University Art Gallery (1943– )

Bibliography

Laurence Kanter and Pia Palladino, Italian Paintings at the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2023–), https://italian-paintings-live.netlify.app/catalogue/volume-1/the-sienese-school/49/

Clay M. Dean, A Selection of Early Italian Paintings from the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 13, 22–23, no. 4

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

Masterpieces of Art: Exhibition at the New York World's Fair 1939, exh. cat. (New York: The Art News, 1939), 17, n.p., no. 3

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

religious art

Subject

saint

Inscriptions

Inscription: "sc. Johannes"

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