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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Perugino's "Madonna and Child with a Swallow"
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Perugino's "Madonna and Child with a Swallow"

photographer
artist (Città della Pieve, about 1450 - 1523, Fontignano)
Datebefore 12 July 1902
Place MadeItaly, Europe
MediumAlbumen print
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.006929
eMuseum ID795258
EmbARK ObjectID32760
TMS Source ID16299
Last Updated9/24/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryIsabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
BibliographyNotesRollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 2016), pp. 290-94.
Rollin van N. Hadley. "What Might Have Been: Pictures Mrs. Gardner Did Not Acquire." Fenway Court (1979), p. 48, no. 50.
MarksNotesInscribed in pencil (upper): #50 original, sent to ISG by BB, included in correspondence / Perugino, Madonna and Child with a Swallow / July 1902
ProvenanceNotesSent by American art historian Bernard Berenson (1865-1959) to Isabella Stewart Gardner on 12 July 1902 for consideration for purchase.