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Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints; Crucifixion; Coronation of the Virgin

Maestro Daddesco (Italian (Florentine), active 2nd quarter of the 14th century)
about 1340–50

Medium/Technique Tempera on panel
Dimensions Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints, 31.11 x 12.7 cm (12 1/4 x 5 in.); Crucifixion, 31.11 x 13.02 cm (12 1/4 x 5 in.); Coronation of the Virgin, 22.86 x 18.41 cm (9 x 7 1/4 in.)
Credit Line Zoe Oliver Sherman Collection
Accession Number38.1840
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
This exquisite panel, unusually divided into three distinct picture fields, was originally the central section of a three-panel altarpiece. The hinges on each side indicate that it once possessed wings that would have folded over the two lower scenes. The unidentified artist was probably also a manuscript illuminator and is called Maestro Daddesco because of his dependence on the style of his Florentine contemporary Bernardo Daddi.

ProvenanceBy 1929, Raymond Henniker-Heaton (Raymond Wyer), Worcester, MA and London; 1930, sold by Henniker-Heaton to Zoe Oliver Sherman (b. 1861 - d. 1945), Boston; 1938, gift of Zoe Oliver Sherman to the MFA. (Accession Date: May 11, 1938)