Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, Paul, John the Baptist, and Dominic and a Dominican Supplicant

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Edward Hopper

CC0 Public Domain Designation

1325/35

Attributed to Ugolino di Nerio
Italian, active 1317-1339/49

On View: European Painting and Sculpture, Gallery 237

Artist: Ugolino di Nerio
Title: Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, Paul, John the Baptist, and Dominic and a Dominican Supplicant
Origin: Italy
Date: 1325–1335
Medium: Tempera on panel
Dimensions: 37.2 × 23.2 cm (14 5/8 × 9 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 1937.1007

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Chicago, The Renaissance Society, The University of Chicago, Commemorative Exhibition from the Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1932, no. 2, as Segna [di] Bonaventura.
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Bellandi or Bellanti collection, Siena [according to Ramboux 1862; see Wallraf-Richartz-Museum 1998, p. 583, no. 300]; sold to Johann Anton Ramboux, Cologne (died 1866), probably by 1832-42 [Wallraf-Richartz-Museum 1998, p. 583, no. 300]. Leopold Goldschmidt, Paris; sold Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 14, 16-17, 1898, no. 68, as School of Giotto for Fr 650 [according to annotated copy of sale catalogue at the Getty Research Center, Los Angeles]. Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, probably by 1904 [see Lloyd 1993, p. 261, n. 3]; at his death to his widow (died 1937); bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1937.

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