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Madonna and Child

Madonna and Child

Artist/Maker (Italian, 1486–1531)
Dateca. 1530
MediumOil on panel, transfered to glass
DimensionsOverall: 23 3/4 × 17 3/4 in. (60.3 × 45.1 cm)
Frame: 31 7/8 × 25 7/8 × 2 3/4 in. (81 × 65.7 × 7 cm)
Credit LineGift of Paul F. Walter (OC 1957)
Object number1985.23
Status
On view
More Information
There is a consensus among Renaissance scholars that given the high quality of the Oberlin panel, it could not have been done by an inferior artist or by an artist only vaguely familiar with Andrea del Sarto's style. The suggested possible attributions to Puligo, Salviati, and Jacopino del Conte support the hypothesis that the artist had been in del Sarto's workshop at some time, and thus the "workshop of Andrea del Sarto" with an early sixteenth-century date remains a viable attribution for the work. There exist three other copies after the del Sarto Madonna and Child -- in the Royal Collection at Hampton Court, Alnwick Castle, and in a Swedish private collection.
ProvenanceCollection of -- Gray, Esq. Sir Thomas Baring [1799—1873], London, by 1854;¹ by descent to Florence Anita [1860-1946], Countess of Northbrook, London, until June 1937; (sale, Christie's, London, June 11, 1937, lot 18, sold to "Stevens").² (Findlay Galleries, New York, by January 1943); (Harold Paiken of Grafton Galleries, New York, by November 1943). Mrs. Clifford G. Schultz, Jacksonville, FL; by gift to Cummer Art Gallery, Jacksonville, FL, before December 1967. (Sale, Christie's November 24, 1981, lot 65); Paul F. Walter (1935-2017), New York; by gift 1985 to Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH ¹According to Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain. London, 1854, vol. II, p. 175. Thomas Baring was brother of Sir Francis Thornhill Baring, the first Lord Northbrook.² Work noted as on panel in sale catalogue entry.Exhibition History
Past, Present, East, West: Selected Gifts of Paul F. Walter
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 13, 2001 - July 30, 2001 )
Religion, Ritual and Performance in the Renaissance
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 28, 2012 - June 30, 2013 )
Collections
  • European
  • On View
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