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Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist, Saint Cecilia, and Angels
Provenance
Private collection, Scotland; acquired by Madame Miriam Gilou-Cendrars and her husband, Albert Gilou, early 1930s; Gilou-Cendrars collection, France; sold Roubaix, France, J. Mercier, J. Velliet, D. Thullier, F. Issaly, June 18, 1989, lot 84; bought by Richard L. Feigen Co., New York; sold to the Art Institute, 2007.
Exhibition history
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, July 2001–March 2003 Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Piero di Cossimo: The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florance, February 1-May 3, 2015, cat. 27; Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, June 23-September 27, 2015.
Publications
Mina Bacci, Piero di Cosimo (Milan: Bramante Editrice, 1966), p. 90, no. 32, ill. Francesco Abbate, “Scelta di libri: Piero di Cosimo di Mina Bacci,” Paragone, no. 215 (January 1968), p. 77. Mina Bacci, L’Opera completa di Piero di Cosimo (Milan: Rizzoli Editore, 1976), p. 100, no. 70, ill. Geraldine Norman, “Marché: Les Maîtres Anciens en haut de la vague,” Connaissance des Arts, no. 451 (September 1989), pp. 20-21, ill. Sharon Fermor, Piero di Cosimo. Fiction, invention, and ‘fantasìa’ (London: Reaktion Books, 1993), pp. 140, 145, 216, nn. 26-27 (ill. in color). Anna Forlani Tempesti and Elena Capretti, Piero di Cosimo. Catalogo completo (Florence: Octavo, 1996), p. 119, no. 29, ill. Roberta J.M. Olson, The Florentine Tondo (New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 98, 252–53, fig. A48. Elena Capretti, “Piero di Cosimo: un’opera ritrovata: II. Il dipinto, ” Arte Cristiana, vol. 90, no. 808 (January/February 2002), p. 28, n. 7. Dennis Geronimus, The Painting Career of Piero di Cosimo, 1462-1522, Doctoral Thesis, Oxford University, 2000, vol. 1, pp. 171–72; vol. 2, p. 29, fig. 60. Dennis Geronimus, Piero di Cosimo: Visions Beautiful and Strange (New Haven: Yale University Press), 2006, pp. 258–62, 339–40, fig. 202. Larry J. Feinberg, "Notable Acquisitions at the Art Institute of Chicago," Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 34, no. 1 (2008), p. 56, ill. p. 57. Maurizia Tazartes, Piero di Cosimo: 'ingegno astratto e difforme' (Florence: Mauro Pagliai, 2010), pp. 99–101, ill.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Piero di Cosimo (Italian, 1461/62–1521)
- Date
- c. 1505
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
- Diam.: 75 cm (29 9/16 in.); Framed: Diam.: 104.2 cm (41 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- sixteenth century
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Lacy Armour Fund
- Accession no.
- 2007.77
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