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(c) 2020 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Saint Francis
(c) 2020 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2020 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Saint Francis

painter (Italian, active 1451 - about 1472)
Date1472
Place MadeVenice, Veneto, Italy, Europe
MediumTempera on lime plaster (transfered to linen)
Dimensions148 x 82.5 cm (58 1/4 x 32 1/2 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP12w24
eMuseum ID721698
EmbARK ObjectID10924
TMS Source ID183
Last Updated11/27/24
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.
BibliographyNotesCatalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 4. (as Veneto)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 399-400, ill. (as Venetian (?), 1350-1450)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 78. (as Venetian (?), 1350-1450)
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, 1972), p. 246. (as Venetian, 15th century)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 276-77, ill. (as Venetian (?), 1400-1450)
Irene Samessa in Francesca Maronese. Il tempo ritrovo. Restauro di Casa dei Battuti e Ca' Balbi a Oderzo (Padua, 2011), pp. 96-100. (as Venetian (?), 1400-1450; similar to Giovanni di Francia)
Irene Samassa. "Casa dei Battuti di Oderzo: un affresco di Giovanni di Francia ritrovato?" Commentari d'arte. Rivista di critica e storia dell'arte, vol. 18 (2012), p. 68. (as by Giovanni di Francia)
 Cristina Vendrame, Luciano Mingotto, Maria Teresa Tolotto. Orderzo Veneziana: Evoluzione urbana, citta dipinta e dimore storiche (Padua, 2017), p. 106 
ProvenanceNotes
Created for the second floor (primo piano) of Casa dei Battuti, Oderzo, Veneto. (with a second fresco by the same artist, museum no. P12w20)
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the cabiner maker and antiquarian Antonio Carrer (d. 1912), Venice for 1,200 lire on 25 September 1897.

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