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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 view

ClassificationsSculpture

Collections

Europe

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.