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Virgin and Child
About the Artwork
Neri de Bicci was a prolific painter of mainly religious themes, active principally in Florence as a panel painter. His grandfather Lorenzo di Bicci was also a painter in Florence, a pupil of Spinello Aretino. His journals from the years 1453-75, including the rates of remuneration for his work, are still preserved in the library of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
Exhibition history
35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). Materials of the Artist. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-December 12, 1958).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Neri di Bicci (Italian, 1419–1491)
- Date
- c. 1460
- Medium
- tempera on wood panel
- Dimensions
- Framed: 59.1 x 35.6 x 3.8 cm (23 1/4 x 14 x 1 1/2 in.); Unframed: 54 x 30.8 cm (21 1/4 x 12 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Medieval Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Henry White Cannon
- Accession no.
- 1946.242
Provenance
Francesco Sparangi, Florence (1797); Henry White Cannon, New York (1928)
More by Neri di Bicci in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009674
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