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Virgin and Child with angel and Saint John
Bartolomeo Bellano (Italian (Padua), 1437–1496/7)
Italian (Padua)
about 1470s–1480s
Object Place: Europe, Padua, Italy
Medium/Technique
Stone, limestone
Dimensions
57.5 x 68 cm (22 5/8 x 26 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession Number17.1469a
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionMarble relief, signed and dated on back "1461 OPVS BARTOLOMEVS BELANI" The date is likely a later addition.
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).
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).