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Crucified Christ with the Virgin and Saint John the Evangelist

Naddo Ceccarelli (Italian (Sienese), active in 1330s–early 1360s)

Medium/Technique Tempera on panel
Dimensions 21.9 x 15.2 cm (8 5/8 x 6 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Walter Scott Fitz
Accession Number16.117
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings

ProvenanceBy 1829, Annibale Francesco Clemente Melchiore Girolamo Nicola della Genga (b. 1760 - d. 1829), Pope Leo XII, Rome; by descent from Genga to the Contessa Pucci; by 1909, passed from Pucci to Mariano Rocchi, Rome [see note 1]. About 1909-1915, Prince Golinicheff Koutousoff, St. Petersburg; sold with the Golinicheff Koutousoff collection to Nicolas Riabouchinsky, Moscow and New York; November 17, 1915, sold by Riabouchinsky to F. Kleinberger Galleries, New York (stock no. 15003) [see note 2]; January 14, 1916, sold by Kleinberger to Edward Jackson Holmes (b. 1873 - d. 1950), Boston; to his mother, Mrs. Walter Scott Fitz (Henrietta Goddard Wigglesworth; b. 1847 - d. 1929), Boston; 1916, gift of Mrs. Fitz to the MFA [see note 3]. (Accession Date: June 1, 1916)

NOTES:
[1] According to a letter from Valerio Mariano, secretary, R. Istituto di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte, Rome to the Assistant Curator of Paintings, MFA (July 3, 1939), this information was provided by Mariano Rocchi.

[2] Kleinberger Galleries Records, Watson Library Digital Collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, stock card 15003.

[3] The painting was accessioned as a work of art by Lippo Memmi.