Virgin and Child

Inscriptions

Inscribed: GLORIAINEXCELSISDEOE IINERRAPAX HOMNIBVSBONEVOLVNATIS LA/DAVSEBENE (within molding across top beginning at the lower left), [AV]EMARIAGRATIAPLENA (within molding across the bottom)

Exhibition history

Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of the Joseph Winterbotham Collection, December 9–31, 1936, cat. 19.

Publications

Burton Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972), 134, 328, 571. Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1961), 354. Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago: Art Institute, 1993), 135-137 (ill.).

Quick Overview

Artist: Lippi-Pesellino Imitator (Italian, active c. 1450-1500)
Date: c. 1465
Medium: Oil and tempera on panel
Dimensions: Panel: 93 × 60.5 cm (36 5/8 × 23 5/8 in.); Framed: 93.4 × 60.4 × 4.2 cm (36 3/4 × 23 3/4 × 1 5/8 in.)
Type: Painting
Classification: painting
Style: 15th century
Place: Italy
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Credit line: Bequest of Joseph Winterbotham
Accession no.: 1954.318

Provenance

French collection or dealer [based on French customs stamp on reverse]. Barbazon Gallery [according to annotation on handlist of 1936 Arts Club exhibition; copy in curatorial file]; Joseph Winterbotham, Jr. (d. 1954), Burlington, Vermont, by 1936 [lent by him to the Arts Club 1936 as Florentine Primitive]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1954.

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