Triptych of the Virgin and Child with Scenes from the Life of Christ

c. 1320

Italian; probably Venice

Status: On View, Gallery 237
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Venetian
Title: Triptych of the Virgin and Child with Scenes from the Life of Christ
Place: Venice (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.: 1315–1325
Medium: Tempera on panel
Inscriptions: Inscribed: HR (in the tooling to the left of the Virgin's head), C(rev)V (in the tooling to the right of the Virgin's head), --- and --- (to the left of the Child's halo), IC XR
Dimensions: Overall: 63.5 × 92.7 × 12.1 cm (25 × 36 1/2 × 4 13/16 in.); Left wing: 63.8 × 22.7 cm (25 1/8 × 8 15/16 in.); Center: 63.8 × 46.8 cm (25 1/8 × 18 7/16 in.); Right wing: 63.8 × 23 cm (25 1/8 × 9 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Denison B. Hull
Reference Number: 1968.321
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August L. Mayer, “Die Sammlung F.H. in München,” Pantheon 5 (1930): 263, ill.
Edward B. Garrison. Italian Romanesque Panel Painting, Florence, 1949, no. 302, ill.
Dorothy C. Shorr. The Christ Child in Devotional Images in Italy during the XIV Century, New York, 1954, p. 48, ill.
Rodolfo Pallucchini. La Pittura Veneziana del Trecento, Venice, 1964, pp. 70-71, fig. 238.
Art Prices Current, vol. 43 (August - July 1967): p. A-182, #5139.
Apollo 83, no. 52 (1966): p. xx, ill,.
Burlington Magazine 58 (1966): p. xxxii, ill,
International Art Market 6, no. 7-8 (1966), p.,144,.
AIC Annual Report 1968-1969, pp. 14, 16, ill.
John Maxon. The Art Institute of Chicago, New York, 1970, pp. 250, 288.
Rudolf Heinemann. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Castagnola, 1969, p. 348, no. 321.
Miklós Boskovits with Serena Padovani. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection: Italian Painting, 1290-1470, London, 1990, p. 196, no. 4.
Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection, Chicago, 1993, pp. 282-85, ill.
Carl Brandon Strehlke, review of Christopher Lloyd, “Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago. A Catalogue of the Collection” in Burlington Magazine, 136 (1994): 626-27, ill.
Mojmír S. Frinta, Punched Decoration on Late Medieval Panel and Miniature Painting, Part I, Catalogue Raisonné of all Punch Shapes (Prague, 1998), p. 130, Dab17a.
Larry J. Feinberg in Christina Nielsen, ed, “Devotion and Splendor. Medieval Art at the Art Institute of Chicago”, Museum Studies, 30, 2 (2004), pp. 62-62, ill., 94.

Chicago, AIC, The Art of the Edge: European Frames 1300-1900, October 17 - December 14, 1986, no. 1.

Julius Böhler, Munich; sold by Böhler to Franz Haniel in 1918 [according to letter of May 22, 2000 from Joachim Temme of Herbert M. Ritter, Kunsthandel, Munich, to Larry Feinberg in curatorial file.]; Franz Haniel, Munich (died 1965); hiers of Franz Haniel; offered for sale through his brother-in-law, Herbert M. Ritter, Munich, at Christie’s, London, July 1, 1966, no. 49 (ill.). [according to letter from Joachim Temme of Herbert M. Ritter, cited above]; bought in and offered for sale again at Christie’s, London, November 24, 1967, no. 72 (ill.); sold probably to Julius Weitzner, London. [implied by a letter of May 13, 1968, from Weitzner to John Maxon, in curatorial files.]; sold by Weitzner to the Art Institute, 1968.

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