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(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Virgin and Child before a Curtained Landscape
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Virgin and Child before a Curtained Landscape

painter (near Treviso, about 1459 - 1517, Conegliano or Venice)
Dateabout 1505-1515
Place MadeItaly, Europe
MediumOil on poplar panel
Dimensions54.3 x 45.7 cm (21 3/8 x 18 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP16w1
eMuseum ID726226
EmbARK ObjectID11733
TMS Source ID913
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.
BibliographyNotesGiulio Sambon. Catalogo della Collezione Baslini di Milano,... (Milan, 26 November 1888), p. 3, ill., lot 14. (as Cima da Conegliano)
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 10. (as Giovanni Battista Cima)
Bernard Berenson. Venetian Painting in America: The Fifteenth Century (New York, 1916), pp. 201-202. (as Cima da Conegliano)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 93-95. (as after Cima da Conegliano)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 107. (as after Cima da Conegliano)
Rollin Hadley. “Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 7, no. 40 (31 May 1964), p. 2. (as follower of Cima da Conegliano)
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, 1972), p. 53. (as Cima da Conegliano)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 56. (as after Cima da Conegliano)
Peter Humfrey. Cima da Conegliano (Cambridge, 1983), p. 92, no. 32, pl. 94. (as studio of Cima da Conegliano)
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), pp. 81, 83, 87, 120. (as Cima da Conegliano)
Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Italian Paintings and Drawings Before 1800 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1996-2000). (as studio of Cima da Conegliano)
MarksNotesLabel (attached to reverse): Artaria & Co., Wein
Inscribed on the label in blue chalk: 443
ProvenanceNotesCollection of Giuseppe Baslini (d. 1887), Milan.
Collection of the art dealer Grandi, Milan by about 1895.
Collection of August Artaria (1807–1893), Artaria and Co., Vienna around 1895.
Purchased by Sir Herbert Frederick Cook (1868–1939), Surrey from August Artaria around 1895 through Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), American art historian.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the art dealers Colnaghi and Co., London through Bernard Berenson 3 May 1897 for £500.
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