Virgin and Child
Andrea della Robbia
(Italian (Florentine), 1435–1525)
about 1500
Object PlaceTuscany, Italy
Medium/TechniqueGlazed terracotta
DimensionsOverall: 48.3 x 33 x 10.8 cm (19 x 13 x 4 1/4 in.)
Credit LineBequest of William C. Endicott in memory of the late Samuel Gray Ward
Accession number42.4
On View
Not on viewClassificationsSculpture
Collections
ProvenanceBy early 1870s, Samuel Gray Ward, Washington [see note 1]; by inheritance to his son, Thomas W. Ward, New York [see note 2]. By 1912, William C. Endicott, Boston [see previous note]; 1942, bequest of William C. Endicott to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 8, 1942)
Notes:
[1] According to notes on back of undated photo in the MFA curatorial file, Samuel Gray Ward purchased the work in Florence, from an unnamed Florentine palace. [2] See A. Marquand, Della Robbias in America (Princeton, 1912), pp. 36,45, who publishes the relief as in the William C. Endicott collection, Boston.
Notes:
[1] According to notes on back of undated photo in the MFA curatorial file, Samuel Gray Ward purchased the work in Florence, from an unnamed Florentine palace. [2] See A. Marquand, Della Robbias in America (Princeton, 1912), pp. 36,45, who publishes the relief as in the William C. Endicott collection, Boston.
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about 1500
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first quarter of the 16th century