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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1900.6
People
Antonio del Massaro da Viterbo, called Pastura, Italian (c. 1450 - c. 1516)
Title
The Virgin and Child
Other Titles
Alternate Title: The Madonna di Santa Chiara
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1490
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Umbria
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/231659

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Tempera on panel
Dimensions
95.3 × 72.1 × 10.8 cm (37 1/2 × 28 3/8 × 4 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • label: verso, affixed with red seal: Dip ad olio su tavola / rapp. Madonna col / Bambino. Scuola Um / bra sec. XVI. 045 x 36 / 1st. 188 Prot. 675 / Roma 25.1.95 / S. Bartolina
  • seal: red wax, used to affix paper label: [illeg. with shield in center]
  • inscription: verso, white chalk: 4
  • inscription: verso, green chalk: [illeg.]
  • inscription: verso, graphite: No 1
  • seal: verso, red wax: DOCAN [illeg] RA [around edge] [keys in center]
  • inscription: faded, text from transcription in curatorial file, originally in black ink: La comperata da Dabetta da Golsia mala di Raffle Sant 1548 [or 1480] per fior 25

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Duke Guidobaldo, Urbino ?. Convent of Santa Chiara, Urbino, by 1580. Hooker (American banker), Rome, circa 1860, by descent; to Elizabeth Temple Hooker (his widow), sold; to Del Nero. Mrs. Edward M. Cary, purchased, Rome, December 1899, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1900.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Edward M. Cary
Accession Year
1900
Object Number
1900.6
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Collection of Mediaeval and Renaissance Paintings, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1919), pp. 169 -175, no. 34
  • Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1972), p. 12
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), pp. 97, 316, repr. b/w cat. no. 620
  • Anna Fucili, Arte da Urbino: la Madonna di Santa Chiara "di Raffaello" e le inguiustizie della storia, Arte Venduta: Mercato, diaspora e furti nelle Marche in età moderna e contemporanea, il lavoro editoriale (2016), pp. 164-306, repr. as fig. 2 and fig 3.
  • Elena V. Shabliy, ed., Representations of the Blessed Virgin Mary in World Literature and Art, Lexington Books (Lanham, Maryland, 2017), repr. on p. 26

Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/23/2019 - 05/13/2019

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