The Crucifixion
Bernardo Daddi
(Italian (Florentine), active about 1320–1348)
before 1328
Medium/TechniqueTempera on panel
Dimensions40.3 x 32.1 cm (15 7/8 x 12 5/8 in.)
Credit LineHelen Collamore Fund
Accession number23.211
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPaintings
Collections
ProvenanceMarch 19, 1921, sold by Paul Cassirer (dealer), Berlin to Julius Böhler (dealer), Munich (stock no. M_21-0256); May 17, 1921, sold by Böhler to Osvald Sirén (b. 1879 - d. 1966), Stockholm [see note 1]; 1923, sold by Sirén to the MFA for $3750. (Accession Date: April 5, 1923)
NOTES:
[1] Sold as a work by an unknown Italian painter, about 1400. Information is taken from the Julius Böhler Archive online (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte), Karteikarte no. M_21-0256 and a letter from Sirén to James Plaut of the MFA (October 12, 1936). Sirén wrote that "it was acquired some time during the war at Julius Böhler's in Munich. They did not give any further information as to its earlier owners."
NOTES:
[1] Sold as a work by an unknown Italian painter, about 1400. Information is taken from the Julius Böhler Archive online (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte), Karteikarte no. M_21-0256 and a letter from Sirén to James Plaut of the MFA (October 12, 1936). Sirén wrote that "it was acquired some time during the war at Julius Böhler's in Munich. They did not give any further information as to its earlier owners."
Unidentified artist, Russian (Palekh School), 18th century
Unidentified artist, Greek (Veneto-Cretan), 16th century
Argonaut Master
last third of the 15th century
Master of the Bracciolini Chapel
1420s
