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    Virgin and Child
    Niccolò di Pietro Gerini. Virgin and Child, 1390–1400. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00000837

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    Virgin and Child

    by Niccolò di Pietro Gerini

    Inscriptions

    Inscribed: AVE MARIA GRACIA PLENA DOMINVS TE (along base of frame)

    Provenance

    James Kerr-Lawson, Florence, by 1910 [according to invoice from Kerr-Lawson to Ryerson dated June 14, 1910, in curatorial file]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932), Chicago, 1910; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

    Exhibition history

    Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Exhibition of the Work of Old and New Masters of Religious Art, Apr. 7–20, 1931, cat. 76. Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Commemorative Exhibition from the Martin A. Ryerson Collection, Oct. 9–30, 1932, cat. 2. Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Ryerson Gift, Jan. 26–31, 1938 (no cat.). Chicago, Englewood High School, Short Term Loan, Jan.–Mar. 1946 (no cat.). Chicago, C. D. Peacock Co., Short Term Loan, Apr. 15–30, 1952 (no cat.).

    Publications

    Richard Offner, “Niccolò di Pietro Gerini,” Art in America 9 (1921): 148–49, 153–55, fig. 1. Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. 3 (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1924), 614. Richard Offner, Studies in Florentine Painting: The Fourteenth Century (New York: Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1927), 83, 85–87, 92, fig. 5. Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932), 394. William R. Valentiner, Paintings in the Collection of Martin A. Ryerson, (unpub. MS, 1932, Archives, The Art Institute of Chicago), n. p. Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento (Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1936), 339. “Exhibition of the Ryerson Gift,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 22, no. 1 (1938): 3. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1961), 174. Hans Huth, “Italienische Kunstwerke im Art Institute von Chicago, USA,” in Miscellanea Bibliothecae Hertzianae: zu Ehren von Leo Bruhns, Franz Graf Wolff Metternich, Ludwig Schudt (Munich: Anton Schroll, 1961), 516. Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, vol. 1 (London: Phaidon, 1963), 158. Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972), 81, 312, 571. Miklòs Boskovits, Pittura fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, 1370–1400 (Florence: Edam, 1975), 404. Richard Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting: A Legacy of Attributions, ed. by Hayden B. J. Maginnis, Supplement (New York: Institute of Fine Arts, 1981), 72. Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1993), 98–100, (ill.). David Berry and Christina Nielsen, “Appendix A: Prominent Dealers of Medieval Art, 1900–1950,” in To Inspire and Instruct: A History of Medieval Art in Midwestern Museums, ed. Christina Nielsen (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008), 171.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Niccolò di Pietro Gerini (Italian, died 1415/16)
    Date
    1390–1400
    Medium
    Tempera on panel, transferred to canvas
    Dimensions
    78.7 × 46.5 cm (31 3/8 × 18 5/16 in.); Framed: 98.5 × 54 × 7.7 cm (38 3/4 × 21 1/4 × 3 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    tempera
    Style
    14th century
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Painting and Sculpture of Europe
    Credit line
    Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
    Accession no.
    1937.1003

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