Object number1917.1.8
Madonna and Child with Donors
Datec. 1408
Artist
Martino di Bartolomeo
(Italian, 1389-1434)
CultureSienese
MediumTempera with gold and punched decoration on Italian poplar wood panel, from an altarpiece
DimensionsFramed: 45 x 24 1/4 x 2 1/2 in. (114.3 x 61.6 x 6.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Charles M. Pratt
On View
Not on viewPeriod15th c
Classification(s)
InscribedWithin image, in Christ's scroll at right: Damme benedetto sempre sarai / se fara bene el mal lassarai; on a label affixed to the reverse, by unidentified hand, in ink: A Bartolo di Fredo Bartolomeo/ "An Enthroned Madonna" / Consul Weber Sale. Berlin. Feb: 1912 / (Osterwald Sale. Koln 1872. / vide. Fritz Harck in Archivio Storico / dell' Arte, 1891, IV, p. 84 / "ricorda Ambrogio Lorenzetti" ) / No. 1 in Weber Catalogue.; a printed label from Dowdeswell & Dowdeswells Limited affixed to the reverse
ProvenanceOsterwald auction, Cologne, May 27, 1872, lot 27 (sold as by Ambrosio Lorenzetti.) Consul Eduard Friedrich Weber (1830-1907), Hamburg, Germany; Galerie Weber Sale, Rudolph Lepke’s Kunst-Auctions-Haus, Berlin, February 20 - 22, 1912, lot 1. Dowdeswell and Dowdeswells Limited, London sometime between 1887 and 1918.DescriptionDepiction of the Virgin Mary seated with the Christ child standing on her lap as she supports him and he bestows a benediction with his right hand. In his left hand, Christ holds a scroll reading "Damme benedetto sempre farai / se fara bene el mal lassarai" [Blessed by me you always will be if you do good works and cast aside evil]. Visible below are four figures, two on each side, looking up to Mary and Christ with their hands folded in front of them in prayer. Both Mary and Christ have golden halos around their head and sit on a throne with lavish red brocade behind them.
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