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(c) 2014 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
The Virgin and Child
(c) 2014 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2014 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

The Virgin and Child

painter (Perugia, about 1452 - 1513, Siena)
Dateabout 1490-1495
Place MadePerugia, Umbria, Italy, Europe
MediumTempera on panel
Dimensionspanel: 30.2 x 26 cm (11 7/8 x 10 1/4 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP15w35
eMuseum ID730963
EmbARK ObjectID11698
TMS Source ID885
Last Updated8/9/24
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.
BibliographyNotesBernard Berenson. The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance (New York, 1897), p. 228.
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 9.
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 266-69.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 98.
Morris Carter. "Mrs. Gardner & The Treasures of Fenway Court" in Alfred M. Frankfurter (ed.). The Gardner Collection (New York, 1946), p. 60.
Sylvia Sprigge. Berenson, a Biography (Boston, 1960), pp. 183-85.
“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 9, no. 37 (15 May 1966), p. 2. (excerpting Sylvia Sprigge, pp. 138-85)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 184-85.
David Alan Brown. "Berenson and Mrs. Gardner: The Connoisseur, the Collector and the Photograph." Fenway Court. (1978), pp. 24-29, no. 3.
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), pp. 275-277, 279-284, 296, 309.
Pietrro Scarpellini and Maria Rita Silvestrelli. Pintoricchio (Milan, 2003), pp. 150, 154, fig. 23.
Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Brüggen Israëls. The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at Villa I Tatti (Milan, 2015), p. 756, no. A86.
ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), American art historian, from the art dealer Emilio Costantini, Florence on 11 November 1901.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Bernard Berenson, Florence on 19 February 1902 for £4,000, via Miss Toplady, a curiosity shop founded by art critic Mary Berenson (1864-1945) and her brother, author Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946), London.