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Materials:

tempera on panel, gold ground

Measurements:

23.35 in. (59.30 cm.) (height) by 15.35 in. (39.00 cm.) (width)

Literature:

A. Venturi, "La quadreria Sterbini in Roma", in L'arte, no . 8, 1905, p. 432 (as attributed to Neroccio de' Landi);. A. Venturi, La galleria Sterbini in Roma, Rome 1906, pp. 78, 83, cat. no. 19, reproduced fig. 29, (as attributed to Neroccio, dating to circa 1475);. F. Sapori, "Una Madonna di Neroccio Landi di Bartolommeo alla Galleria Sterbini in Roma", in Rassegna d'arte senese, 5, no. 3, 1909, pp. 84-86 (as a late work by Neroccio);. F. M. Perkins, "Alcuni dipinti senesi," in Rassegna d'arte senese, 7, nos. 1-2, 1911, pp. 18 - 19, reproduced pp. 18 and 19 (as attributed to Pietro di Domenico);. S. Rubinstein-Bloch, "Paintings - Early Schools", in Catalogue of the Collection of George and Florence Blumenthal, vol. 1, Paris 1926, reproduced plate XXXIII (here and henceforth as Pietro di Domenico);. P. Misciattelli, "La donna senese del Rinascimento", in La Diana, 2, no. 4, 1927, reproduced p. 233;. B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford 1932, p. 456;. F.M. Perkins in Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, 27, Leipzig 1933, p. 18;. B. Berenson, I Pitturi italiani del rinascimento. Milan 1936, p. 392;. R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. 16, The Hague 1937, pp. 312 - 13, pp. 459 - 60, cat. no. 3;. B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London 1968, vol. I, p. 343;. B. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, Mass. 1972, pp. 165, 347, 608;. 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, pp. 64 - 65, reproduced plate 73;. p. 142, . K. Christiansen et al., Painting in Renaissance Siena: 1420 - 1500, exhibition catalogue, New York 1988, p. 345;. K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1980, vol. I, p. 142, reproduced vol. II, p. 72;. K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1995, p. 65, reproduced;. M. S. Frinta, Punched Decoration on Late Medieval Panel and Miniature Painting, part 1, Prague 1998, p. 473.

Provenance:

Conte Giulio Sterbini, Rome, by 1905 and until at least 1909;. Possibly Sangiorgi, Rome;. George and Florence Blumenthal, New York, by 1911;. By whom bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (inv. no. 41.190.22).