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Madonna and Child

Benvenuto di Giovanni  (Italian, Siena 1436–after 1518 Siena)

Date:
ca. 1470
Culture:
Italian, Siena
Medium:
Tempera on wood, gold ground
Dimensions:
Overall 27 3/4 x 18 1/8 in. (70.5 x 46 cm); painted surface 24 1/4 x 14 3/4 in. (61.6 x 37.5 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number:
1975.1.54

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 956

  • Description

    Sienese in origin, Benvenuto di Giovanni was a painter of extraordinary accomplishment in his early years, during which he painted this tender "Madonna and Child". According to Robert Lehman, the painting was once owned by Pope Pius II Piccolomini (d. 1465), whose coat of arms is said to have formerly appeared on the back of the panel. The tabernacle frame is also of the highest quality, dating to the last years of the fifteenth century. The acorns, clustered beneath the scroll console, may be a heraldic allusion to Pius II. The candelabra-decorated pilasters are characteristic of Sienese frames of the period.

  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Inscribed (on Madonna's halo): AVE.GRATIA.PLENA.DOM

  • Provenance

    Ernest Odiot, Paris (Catalogue des objets d'arte de M. Ernest Odiot, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 26-27, 1889, p. 30, no. 15, as 14th century Sienese school); M. Chabrières-Arlès, Oullin, nr. Lyon; Duveen Brothers, New York. Acquired by Philip Lehman in 1916.

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