Virgin and Child with Angels Artist: Arcangelo di Cola da Camerino (Italian, active 1416–29)

ca. 1425

European Art

By appointment, Wurtele Study Center
Medium

Tempera on panel

Dimensions

121 × 69.9 cm (47 5/8 × 27 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Maitland F. Griggs, B.A. 1896

Accession Number

1937.10

Culture

Italian, Camerino

Period

15th century

Classification

Paintings

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Provenance
With “Kraus,” Schnackenberg, Germany, by 1921 (as by Taddeo di Bartolo); sold to Julius Böhler, Munich, June 30, 1921; sold to August Liebmann Mayer (1885–1944), Munich, June 20, 1923 [consigned to Julius Böhler (Kunsthandlung Böhler, dealer), Munich, October 4, 1924]; sold to Julius Böhler (Kunsthandlung Böhler, dealer), Munich, March 16, 1926, with a half-share transferred to Kunsthandel A.G. Lucern, Lucerne, Switzerland, March 20, 1926 [see note 1]; sold to Maitland F. Griggs (1872–1944), New York, July 13, 1929; given to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 1937

Note 1: Kunsthandel A.G. Lucern was an affiliate of the Kunsthandlung Böhler, Munich. The transactions for the painting between 1921 and 1929 are recorded on index cards of the Böhler firm’s archives retained by the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich. The Gallery is grateful to Dr.s Birgit Jooss, Stephan Klingen and Christian Fuhrmeister in facilitating access to the Böhler archive. Copies of the index cards are also in the curatorial object file for the painting.
Bibliography
  • 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.
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
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Object/Work type

religious art

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