Images(6)

Cassone with three painted panels

Apollonio di Giovanni di Tomaso (Italian (Florentine), about 1416–1465)

Marco del Buono di Marco (Italian (Florentine), about 1402–1489)

Unidentified artist, Italian (Florentine), 19th century

Paintings: possibly after 1465; cabinetry: late 19th century

Medium/TechniqueTempera on panel

DimensionsOverall: 99.1 x 208.3 x 73.7 cm (39 x 82 x 29 in.)
Overall (Scenes from the Aeneid (?)): 38.1 x 140 cm (15 x 55 1/8 in.)
Overall (End panels): 38 x 40 cm (14 15/16 x 15 3/4 in.)

Credit LineBequest of Mrs. Martin Brimmer

Accession number06.2441

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ClassificationsPaintings

Collections

Europe

ProvenanceBy 1872, Martin Brimmer (b. 1829 - d. 1896), Boston [see note]; by inheritance to his widow, Marianne Timmins Brimmer (b. 1827 - d. 1906), Boston; 1906, bequest of Mrs. Martin Brimmer to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 8, 1906)

NOTE: Lent to the Metropolitan Museum of Art; see Annual Report of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2 (1872): pp. 25-26.