About This Artwork

Agnolo Bronzino or Follower
Italian, 1503–1572

Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, 1527/30 or later

Oil on panel
32 1/8 x 22 5/8 in. (81.6 x 57.4 cm)
Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection, 1963.206

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames, 1300–1900, 1986, cat. 6.

Publication History

John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), p. 254 (ill.).

Kurt W. Forster, “A Madonna by Maso da San Friano,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 7 (1972), pp. 34–51, figs. 1, 4, 6, 13.

Burton Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian paintings in American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1972), pp. 168, 336, 571.

Cecil Gould, National Gallery Catalogues: The Sixteenth-Century Italian Schools (London, 1975), p. 87.

Valentino Pace, “Maso da San Friano,” Bollettino d’Arte 61 (1976), p. 91.

Anna Matteloi, “Una S. Famiglia di Maso da San Friano,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 29 (1985), p. 394.

Christopher Lloyd. Italian Paintings Before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 2025, ill.

Phillippe Costamagna, Pontormo (Milan, 1994), pp. 11, 301, no. A66.1.

Frank Zuccari, “Conservations of Italian Paintings in Chicago” in Early Italian Paintings: Approaches to Conservation. Proceedings of a Symposium at the Yale University Art Gallery, April 2002, ed. by Patricia Sherwin Garland (New Haven and London, 2003), pp. 254–5, figs. 18.4 and 5.

Ownership History

Sestieri, Rome; sold to Colnaghi, London, 1962 [according to letter of January 29, 1991 from Jeremy Howard of Colnaghi in curatorial file]; purchased from Colnaghi by the Art Institute through the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Endowment, 1963.