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Virgin and Child Blessing
Italian (Venice)
Renaissance
late 15th century
Object Place: Europe, Venice, Italy
Medium/Technique
Stone, with polychromy
Dimensions
Overall: 105 x 90 x 12.7 cm, 233.6 kg (41 5/16 x 35 7/16 x 5 in., 515 lb.)
Framed (Rectangular pan shaped steel frame/ two security tabs): 104.5 x 85.7 x 16.5 cm (41 1/8 x 33 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.)
Framed (Rectangular pan shaped steel frame/ two security tabs): 104.5 x 85.7 x 16.5 cm (41 1/8 x 33 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton
Accession Number17.1465
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsSculpture
DescriptionFrame of alternating blocks. Much discolored on right half. Of limestone.
ProvenanceQuincy Adams Shaw (b. 1825 - d. 1908), Boston; 1917, gift of Quincy Adams Shaw through Quincy Adams Shaw, Jr., and Mrs. Marian Shaw Haughton, to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 29, 1917)
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