Three-Handed Mother of God
19th century
Medium/TechniqueTempera and gold on panel
Dimensions31.1 x 27.0 cm (12 1/4 x 10 5/8 in.)
Credit LineBequest of Eleanor A. Sayre
Accession number2002.422
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPaintings
Collections
ProvenanceBy 1960s, Eleanor A. Sayre (b. 1916 - d. 2001), Cambridge, MA [see note 1]; 2001, bequest of Eleanor Sayre to the MFA. (Accession Date: October 23, 2002)
NOTES:
[1] Eleanor Sayre, Curator Emerita of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the MFA, was the granddaughter of Woodrow Wilson and the daughter of Francis Sayre, Assistant Secretary of State under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She accompanied her father on a diplomatic mission in the 1930s to the Soviet Union where she or her father may have received this painting as a diplomatic gift.
NOTES:
[1] Eleanor Sayre, Curator Emerita of Prints, Drawings and Photographs at the MFA, was the granddaughter of Woodrow Wilson and the daughter of Francis Sayre, Assistant Secretary of State under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. She accompanied her father on a diplomatic mission in the 1930s to the Soviet Union where she or her father may have received this painting as a diplomatic gift.
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