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The Crucifixion

Bernardo Daddi (Italian (Florentine), active about 1320–1348)
before 1328

Medium/Technique Tempera on panel
Dimensions 40.3 x 32.1 cm (15 7/8 x 12 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Helen Collamore Fund
Accession Number23.211
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings

ProvenanceMarch 19, 1921, sold by Paul Cassirer (dealer), Berlin to Julius Böhler (dealer), Munich (stock no. M_21-0256); May 17, 1921, sold by Böhler to Osvald Sirén (b. 1879 - d. 1966), Stockholm [see note 1]; 1923, sold by Sirén to the MFA for $3750. (Accession Date: April 5, 1923)

NOTES:
[1] Sold as a work by an unknown Italian painter, about 1400. Information is taken from the Julius Böhler Archive online (Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte), Karteikarte no. M_21-0256 and a letter from Sirén to James Plaut of the MFA (October 12, 1936). Sirén wrote that "it was acquired some time during the war at Julius Böhler's in Munich. They did not give any further information as to its earlier owners."