Virgin and Child with Two Angels

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1465/75

Attributed to Francesco Botticini
Italian, active by 1459–1497

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

Artist: Francesco Botticini
Title: Virgin and Child with Two Angels
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1459–1497
Medium: Tempera on panel
Dimensions: 78.2 × 55.5 cm (30 3/4 × 21 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 1937.1009
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Alexander Barker (died 1847), London; sold Christie’s, London, June 6, 8–11, 1874, no. 66, as Antonio Pollaiuolo, “The Madonna, seated with the infant Saviour upon her lap in the act of blessing, two saints in the background,” to G. P. Boyce for £84 [price and buyer given by Redford 1888; the printed description from the sale catalogue is pasted on the back of the painting]; G. P. Boyce, London, 1874 to 1897; sold, Christie’s, London, July 1, 1897, no. 344, as Antonio Pollaiuolo, to Agnew for £446 5s [price and buyer given in Graves 1921]. Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris [according to catalogue of the Weber sale, 1912]; sold to Consul Eduard F. Weber, Hamburg, 1897; sold Lepke, Berlin, February 20–22, 1912, no. 23, pl. 8, as Florentine School, c. 1475, for 40,000 marks [price in annotated catalogue at Getty Center, Los Angeles]. Arthur Tooth and Sons, London, by 1916 [according to Kleinberger records, Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York]; sold to Kleinberger, New York, 1916; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, 1917 [bill of sale, Art Institute archives]; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

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