Christ Blessing Three Young Men, initial M from a Gradual

Exhibition history

The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Medieval World at our Fingertips: Manuscript Illuminations from the Collection of Sandra Hindman", January 23 - May 28, 2018.

Publications

M. Boskovits, The Fourteenth Century. The Painters of the Miniaturist Tendency, in Corpus of Florentine Painting, Section III, Vol. IX, ed. Richard Offner with Kara Steinweg (Florence, 1984), p. 221-221.

Quick Overview

Artist: Maestro Daddesco / Italian (Florence), active about 1310-1350
Date: 1320/30
Medium: Opaque watercolor, with shell gold and gold leaf, on parchment
Dimensions: 13.8 × 13.1 cm (5 7/16 × 5 3/16 in.)
Type: Drawing
Classification: watercolor
Style: medieval
Place: Italy
Department: Prints and Drawings
Credit line: Gift of Sandra Hindman
Accession no.: 2017.202

Provenance

Robert Stayner Holford (1808–1892) of Westonbrit, Glouscestershire [Benson, 1927, I, pp. xvii, I, 5, no. 7]; by descent to his son, Colonel Sir George Holford (1860–1926). A. R. H. Mann; sold London, Sotheby’s, Apr. 11, 1961, lot 76, as "Sienese, mid¬14th c., stylistically close to the Master of the Saint George Codex,” to Dr. H. J. Bein. Sold, Sotheby's, London, July 8, 2014, lot 34, to Sandra Hindman; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2017.

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