Virgin and Child

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

16th century or later

After Giovanni Bellini
Italian, 1428/30-1516

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Giovanni Bellini
Title: Virgin and Child
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1500–1600
Medium: Tempera or oil on panel
Dimensions: 71.5 × 55.4 cm (28 1/8 × 21 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Reference Number: 1933.550
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“Titian Brings $600, Lippi $300 at Sale,” Art News 23, 11 (1924), p. 1.
American Art Sales (Washington, D.C., December 1924), p. 5.
“The Century of Progress Exhibition of the Fine Arts,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 27 (1933), p. 60.
“The Century of Progress Exhibition of Art for 1934,” Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 28 (1934), p. 47.
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Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1933, no. 105.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, 1934, no. 44.

Possibly Carlo Ferrari, Turin [according to registrar’s records and Rich 1938]. Possibly Count Papadopoli, Padua [according to registrar’s records]. Paolo Paolini, Rome, to 1924; sold in his sale, American Art Association, New York, December 10–11, 1924, lot 115 (ill.), to R. L. Addison for $5000 [according to American Art Sales 1924 and an annotated copy of the sale catalogue in the Ryerson Library, Art Institute]. Carlo Foresti, Milan, to 1930 [according to a letter from Charles H. Worcester to Marion Borwell dated June 3, 1930, in curatorial file]; sold to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1930 [according to the letter cited above]; given to the Art Institute, 1933.

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