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(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Virgin and Child on a Parapet
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Virgin and Child on a Parapet

painter (Bologna, about 1450 - 1517, Bologna)
Date1510-1517
Place MadeBologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Europe
MediumOil and tempera on poplar panel
Dimensions58.7 x 49.5 cm (23 1/8 x 19 1/2 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberP16e7
eMuseum ID724840
EmbARK ObjectID11780
TMS Source ID947
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.
BibliographyNotesCatalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 12. (as Il Francia)
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), pp. 145-48. (as Il Francia)
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 116. (as Il Francia)
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, 1972), p. 74. (as studio of Francesco Francia)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 91-93. (as Il Francia)
Juliette Laffon. Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures. Musée du Petit Palais (Paris, 1981), vol. I, under no. 380. (as attributed to the studio of Francesco Francia)
Rollin van N. Hadley (ed.). The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner 1887-1924 (Boston, 1987), pp. 176-7, 179. (as Francesco Francia)
Hilliard Goldfarb et al. Italian Paintings and Drawings Before 1800 in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Unpublished manuscript. (Boston, 1996-2000). (as Francesco Francia)

ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the dealer Emilio Costantini, Florence on 25 May 1899 for 20,000 lire through Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), American art historian.
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Giovanni Bellini
about 1470-1475
(c) 2020 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Giovanni di Francia
1472
(c) 2017 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Francesco Pesellino
about 1453 - 1457
(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Bernardino Luini
19th century
(c) 2021 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Bonifazio de' Pitati
1520-1525
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Cima da Conegliano
about 1505-1515
(c) 2019 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Giovanni Bellini
about 1505-1510
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Giovanni di Francesco
about 1490
(c) 2015 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Gentile da Fabriano
about 1425-1475
(c) 2020 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Giovanni di Francia
1472