The Virgin and Child Enthroned
painterAttributed to
Giovanni di Francia
(Italian, active 1451 - about 1472)
Date1472
Place MadeItaly, Europe
MediumTempera on lime plaster (transfered to linen)
Dimensions164.8 x 121.3 cm (64 7/8 x 47 3/4 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP12w20
eMuseum ID722123
EmbARK ObjectID10781
TMS Source ID50
Last Updated11/27/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentarySeated in a massive wooden throne, the Virgin Mary raises her hands in prayer over the infant Christ. This fresco, a wall painting in tempera pigments on wet plaster, adorned the meeting room of a religious confraternity in the town of Oderzo, outside Venice. Executed by local painter Giovanni di Francia in 1472, it consisted of this central image flanked by four saints, which remains in Italy in situ.
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)
Rollin van N. Hadley. "Report of the Director." Fenway Court (1970), pp. 46, 49, ill. (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. 96-101, ill. (as Venetian (?), 1400-1450; similar to the frescos in the Church of Visitazione della Beata Vergine Maria di Susegana by a follower of Giovanni di Francia)
Irene Samessa. "Casa dei Battuti di Orderzo: un affresco di Giovanni di Francia ritrovato?" Commentari d'arte. Rivista di critica e storia dell'arte, vol. 18 (April 2012) pp. 66-69, figs. 3-4. (as by Giovanni di Francia)
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)
Rollin van N. Hadley. "Report of the Director." Fenway Court (1970), pp. 46, 49, ill. (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. 96-101, ill. (as Venetian (?), 1400-1450; similar to the frescos in the Church of Visitazione della Beata Vergine Maria di Susegana by a follower of Giovanni di Francia)
Irene Samessa. "Casa dei Battuti di Orderzo: un affresco di Giovanni di Francia ritrovato?" Commentari d'arte. Rivista di critica e storia dell'arte, vol. 18 (April 2012) pp. 66-69, figs. 3-4. (as by Giovanni di Francia)
ProvenanceNotesCreated for the second floor (primo piano) of Casa dei Battuti, Oderzo, Veneto. (with a second fresco by the same artist, museum no. P12w24)
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the cabiner maker and antiquarian Antonio Carrer (d. 1912), Venice for 1,200 lire on 25 September 1897.
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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