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The Virgin and Child; Charity of Saint Nicholas; Crucifixion; Christ and the Samarian Woman

(Italian (Florentine), active about 1343–1376)
about 1360–76
Medium/TechniqueTempera on panel
DimensionsOverall: 100.7 x 69.7cm (39 5/8 x 27 7/16in.)
Other (Picture surface: Virgin and Child): 78.1 x 52.6 cm (30 3/4 x 20 11/16 in.)
Other (Picture surface: predella): 11.4 x 44.1 cm (4 1/2 x 17 3/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Dr. Eliot Hubbard
Accession number37.409
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPaintings
Collections
ProvenanceHenri Cernuschi (b. 1811 - d. 1896), Paris; May 25-26, 1900, posthumous Cernuschi sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, lot 16 [see note 1], to Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York; 1901, sold by Durand-Ruel to Eliot Hubbard (b. 1856 – d. 1932) and his wife, Helen Wetherell Faulkner Hubbard (b. 1860 –d. 1937), Cambridge, MA; by descent to their son, Dr. Eliot Hubbard, Jr. (b. 1893 - d. 1977), Cambridge; 1937, gift of Dr. Eliot Hubbard, Jr. to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 5, 1937)

NOTES:
[1] Attributed to the school of Giotto.
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