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Virgin and Child with angel and Saint John

(Italian (Padua), 1437–1496/7)
about 1470s–1480s
Object PlacePadua, Italy
Medium/TechniqueStone, limestone
Dimensions57.5 x 68 cm (22 5/8 x 26 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession number17.1469a
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSculpture
Collections
ProvenanceSaid to come from Venice [see note 1]. By 1889, private collection, Italy [see note 2]. About 1896, sold by Stefano Bardini (dealer; b. 1836 - d. 1922), Florence, to Quincy Adams Shaw (b. 1825 - d. 1908), Boston [see note 3]; 1917, gift of Quincy Adams Shaw, through Quincy Adams Shaw Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 29, 1917)

NOTES:
[1] According to Stefano Bardini in a letter to Quincy Adams Shaw (February 20, 1896), cited by Lynn Catterson, Dealing Art on Both Sides of the Atlantic (Brill, 2017), pp. 1-2. [2] Wilhelm Bode, "Amtliche Berichte aus den Königlichen Kunstsammlungen," Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen 10, no. 4 (October 1, 1889), p. LI and "Lo scultore Bartolomeo Bellano," Archivio Storico dell'Arte 4 (1891): p. 400. [3] Offered by Bardini to Shaw in 1896, as discussed by Catterson 2017 (see above, n. 1).
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a-b
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