Virgin and Child

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1450

Central Italian

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Central Italian
Title: Virgin and Child
Place: Central Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1445–1455
Medium: Tempera and oil on panel, gold ground
Dimensions: 81.6 × 49 cm (32 1/8 × 19 1/2 in.); Framed: 117.2 × 82 × 12.7 cm (46 1/8 × 32 1/4 × 5 in.)
Credit Line: George F. Harding Collection
Reference Number: 1984.16
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American Art Sales (Washington, D.C., May 1926), p. 18.
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 221, 323, 572.
Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), p. 65–67, ill.
Carl Brandon Strehlke, review of Christopher Lloyd, “Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Burlington Magazine 136 (1994), p. 626.
J[oseph] M[anca] in Miklós Boskovits and David Alan Brown, Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art. Systematic Catalogue (Washington, D.C., 2003), pp. 261, 265 n. 10.

The Saint Paul Art Center, Minnesota, Age of Belief: An Exhibition of Religious Art from the Harding Museum Collections, 1966–67, no. 10, as Jacopo del Sellaio.

Achillito Chiesa, Milan, by 1925; sold in his sale, American Art Association, New York, April 16, 1926, part 2, no. 58 (ill.), as Jacopo del Sellaio for $3,000 to Clapp and Graham, likely acting as agent for Harding [information on buyer and price according to American Art Sales 1926]. George F. Harding Jr., Chicago (d. 1939); bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; offered for sale, Sotheby’s, New York, December 2, 1976, no. 93 (ill.), as Girolamo di Giovanni da Camerino, withdrawn; ownership transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned in 1984.

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