Virgin and Child by Central Italian
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Virgin and Child

Central Italian · c. 1450

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Achillito Chiesa, Milan, by 1925; sold in his sale, American Art Association, New York, April 16, 1926, part 2, no. 58 (ill.), as Jacopo del Sellaio for $3,000 to Clapp and Graham, likely acting as agent for Harding [information on buyer and price according to American Art Sales 1926]. George F. Harding Jr., Chicago (d. 1939); bequeathed to the George F. Harding Museum, Chicago; offered for sale, Sotheby’s, New York, December 2, 1976, no. 93 (ill.), as Girolamo di Giovanni da Camerino, withdrawn; ownership transferred to the Art Institute, 1982; accessioned in 1984.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • The Saint Paul Art Center, Minnesota, Age of Belief: An Exhibition of Religious Art from the Harding Museum Collections, 1966–67, no. 10, as Jacopo del Sellaio.

Literature

Published references

  • American Art Sales (Washington, D.C., May 1926), p. 18.
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 221, 323, 572.
  • Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), p. 65–67, ill.
  • Carl Brandon Strehlke, review of Christopher Lloyd, “Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection,” Burlington Magazine 136 (1994), p. 626.
  • J[oseph] M[anca] in Miklós Boskovits and David Alan Brown, Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art. Systematic Catalogue (Washington, D.C., 2003), pp. 261, 265 n. 10.

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