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Virgin and Child

Attributed to: Bartolomeo Bellano (Italian (Padua), 1437–1496/7)
Formerly attributed to: Giovanni Bastianini (Italian (Florence), 1830–1868)
Italian
Renaissance
about 1480–1496–97
Object Place: Florence, Italy

Medium/Technique Marble; gilded wood frame
Dimensions Framed: 76 x 55 x 12 cm (29 15/16 x 21 5/8 x 4 3/4 in.)
Mount (Two aluminum cleats .009" thick): 4.4 x 54.9 cm (1 3/4 x 21 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession Number17.1472
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSculpture

ProvenanceBy 1888, Quincy Adams Shaw (b. 1825 - d. 1908), Boston [see note 1]; 1917, gift of Quincy Adams Shaw, through Quincy Adams Shaw Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 29, 1917)

NOTES:
[1] This is probably the object in the Shaw collection described as a high marble relief showing strong Paduan influence, depicting the Madonna and Child at half length. See F. Harck, "Aus amerikanischen Galerien," Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 11 (1888), p. 81.
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