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Virgin and Child
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
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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