Object details
Object number
S12s1
Creator(s)
Italian, Venice
Title
Virgin and Child with the Venier Coat of Arms
Date
1450-1475
Medium
Istrian stone (with traces of polychrome and gilding still visible)
Dimensions
121.9 x 90.2 x 6 cm (48 x 35 1/2 x 2 3/8 in.)
Provenance
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner (as a coat of arms of the Venetian Foscari family) from the antique dealer Consiglio Ricchetti, Venice for 1,600 lire on 2 September 1897.
Commentary
Isabella 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.
Bibliography
Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 4. (as "Madonna and Child...from a church in the Veneto")
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), pp. 79-80. (as a follower of Donatello, later 15th century)
Cornelius C. Vermeule III et al. Sculpture in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1977), pp. 132-33, no. 165. (as Venetian, 3rd quarter of the 15th century; the arms as Venier family)
Alberto Rizzi. Scultura Esterna a Venezia: Corpus delle Sculture Erratiche all'aperto di Venezia e della sua Laguna (Venice, 1989), p. 47, fig. 23 (as 3rd quarter of the 15th century; the arms as probably Venier family, possibly those of the Magno or Foscari)
Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Venice: Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, 2004), p. 186. (as 3rd quarter of the 15th century, the arms as those of the Vernier family)
Gallery
East, North, And West Cloister
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