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Madonna of Humility
Alternate Title: Virgin and Child
about 1442
Giovanni di Paolo, Italian (Sienese), born about 1399–died in 1
died in 1482
61.9 x 48.9 cm (24 3/8 x 19 1/4 in.)
Tempera on panel
Classification: Paintings
Type, sub-type: Religious - SaintsObject is currently not on viewGiovanni di Paolo preferred to emphasize religious sentiment and decorative patterning rather than the illusion of depth and three-dimensional form. In this work, the Virgin, seated on the ground to indicate her humility, cradles her child against a backdrop of strawberries and wildflowers and a sheltering screen of fruit trees. In the distance stretches a landscape of cultivated fields, stony roads, and fortified towns. Still in its original frame and in a near-perfect state of preservation, this panel exemplifies the lyrical quality of Sienese painting. Museum of Fine Arts, BostonMaria Antoinette Evans Fund, 1930
Accession number: 30.772Provenance/Ownership History: Please note: The history of ownership is not definitive or comprehensive, as it is under constant review and revision by MFA curators and researchers.
By 1909, Eugen Miller von Aichholz (b. 1835 - d. 1919), Vienna. Dr. Albert Figdor (b. 1843 - d. 1927), Vienna; September 29, 1930, posthumous Figdor sale, Cassirer, Berlin, lot 9, to Agnew, London, for 135,000 M (stock no. 7196); 1930, sold by Agnew to the MFA for $38,625. (Accession Date: December 4, 1930)This object is included in the following Selected Tour(s):
  
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