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Materials:

tempera on panel

Size Notes:

overall; painted surface: 69.9 by 48.6 cm

Description:

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Literature:

F.M. Perkins, "Alcuni dipinti senesi sconosciuti o inediti", in Rassegna d'arte, 13 August 1913), p. 124, ill. p. 125, as in the collection of George Blumenthal, New York (as Nerroccio de' Landi);. J.A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle, "Umbrian and Sienese Masters of the Fifteenth Century", in A History of Painting in Italy: Umbria, Florence and Siena from the Second to the Sixteenth Century, vol. V, London 1914, p. 159 cat. no. 6 (as Neroccio);. S. Rubinstein-Bloch, "Paintings - Early Schools", in Catalogue of the Collection of George and Florence Blumenthal, vol. I, Paris 1926, (unpaginated), reproduced plate XXXII;. B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford 1932, p. 390 (as "in great part" by Neroccio);. G.H. Edgell, A History of Sienese Painting, New York 1932, p. 250, reproduced fig. 372 (as Neroccio, dating to the end of his career, but completed or altered by a later artist);. B. Berenson, Pitture italiane del rinascimento, Milan 1936, p. 335 (as "in great part" by Neroccio);. R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. XVI, The Hague 1937, pp. 314-315 (as Workshop of Neroccio);. J. Pope-Hennessy, "Francesco di Giorgio, Neroccio: Two Madonnas and an Altarpiece", in The Burlington Magazine, 75, December 1939, p. 235, reproduced plate II b (as Neroccio, after 1492);. G. Coor, Neroccio de' Landi, 1447-1500, Princeton 1961, pp. 71, 83 cat. no. 286, pp. 90-91, 105, 107 no. 375, pp. 173-174, no. 31, reproduced fig. 69 (as Workshop of Neroccio, possibly by Mariotto da Volterra, after 1492);. B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London, 1968, vol. I, p. 292 (as "in great part" by Neroccio);. B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, Mass. 1972, pp. 148, 332, 379, 433, 608 (as Neroccio de' Landi);. F. Zeri with E.E. Gardner, Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sienese and Central Italian Schools, New York 1980, p. 56, reproduced plate 67 (as Neroccio and workshop, dating to the 1490s);. K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Born Before 1865, A Summary Catalogue, New York 1980, p. 135, reproduced vol. II, p. 72, fig, 41.100.18;. K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Born Before 1865, A Summary Catalogue, New York 1995, p. 63, reproduced fig. 41.100.18.

Provenance:

With Luigi Grassi, Florence;. George Blumenthal, New York, by 1913;. By whom gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in 1941 (Inv. no. 41.100.18).