Virgin and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
painter
Francesco Botticini
(Florence, 1446 - 1497, Florence)
Dateabout 1471-1474
Place MadeFlorence, Tuscany, Italy, Europe
MediumTempera on panel
Dimensions72.2 x 53.9 cm (28 7/16 x 21 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP16w21
eMuseum ID721697
EmbARK ObjectID10929
TMS Source ID188
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on viewWeb 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. 8. (as Botticini)
Ernst Kühnel. Francesco Botticini (Strasbourg, 1906), p. 12. no. 16a. (as Botticini with perhaps another hand)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 72-74. (as Botticini, probably 1480)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 119. (as Botticini)
Morris Carter. "Mrs. Gardner & The Treasures of Fenway Court" in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), pp. 59-60, ill. (as Botticini)
Sylvia Sprigge. Berenson a Biography (Boston, 1960), pp. 183-85.
Bernard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places. Florentine School 1 (London, 1963), p. 39. (as Botticini)
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 9, no. 37 (15 May 1966), p. 2. (excerpting Sylvia Sprigge, pp. 138-85).
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), p. 34. (as Botticini)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 45. (as Botticini, dated 1480)
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), pp. 259-62, 264-66, 268-69.
Lisa Venturini. Francesco Botticini (Florence, 1994), pp. 55 n. 88, 110-11, 157, no. 29, fig. 33. (as Botticini with restoration)
Laurence Kanter in Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Botticelli’s Witness: Changing Style in a Changing Florence. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1997), pp. 44-45, cat. 5. (as Botticini, dated about 1470-1480)
Laurence Kanter in Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Italian Paintings and Drawings Before 1800 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1996-2000). (as Botticini, dated about 1471-1474)
Cynthia Saltzman. Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures (New York: Penguin Books, 2008), p. 89.
Ernst Kühnel. Francesco Botticini (Strasbourg, 1906), p. 12. no. 16a. (as Botticini with perhaps another hand)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 72-74. (as Botticini, probably 1480)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 119. (as Botticini)
Morris Carter. "Mrs. Gardner & The Treasures of Fenway Court" in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), pp. 59-60, ill. (as Botticini)
Sylvia Sprigge. Berenson a Biography (Boston, 1960), pp. 183-85.
Bernard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places. Florentine School 1 (London, 1963), p. 39. (as Botticini)
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 9, no. 37 (15 May 1966), p. 2. (excerpting Sylvia Sprigge, pp. 138-85).
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), p. 34. (as Botticini)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 45. (as Botticini, dated 1480)
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), pp. 259-62, 264-66, 268-69.
Lisa Venturini. Francesco Botticini (Florence, 1994), pp. 55 n. 88, 110-11, 157, no. 29, fig. 33. (as Botticini with restoration)
Laurence Kanter in Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Botticelli’s Witness: Changing Style in a Changing Florence. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1997), pp. 44-45, cat. 5. (as Botticini, dated about 1470-1480)
Laurence Kanter in Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Italian Paintings and Drawings Before 1800 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1996-2000). (as Botticini, dated about 1471-1474)
Cynthia Saltzman. Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures (New York: Penguin Books, 2008), p. 89.
ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealers Lawrie & Co., London on 22 July 1901 for £1600 through Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), American art historian.
Andrea Mantegna
about 1497-1500
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