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Virgin and Child with Angels

after 1460

Neri de Bicci

(Italian, 1419–1491)

Italy, 15th century

Tempera on wood

Framed: 109.8 x 110.2 x 15 cm (43 1/4 x 43 3/8 x 5 7/8 in.); Unframed: 64 x 45.5 cm (25 3/16 x 17 15/16 in.)

Holden Collection 1916.798

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117A Italian Renaissance

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The removal of a thick coat of soiled and discolored varnish in 1943 gave this painting new life.

Description

Neri de Bicci was a prolific painter of mainly religious themes, active principally in Florence as a panel painter. His grandfather, Lorenzo di Bicci was also a painter in Florence. His journals from the years 1453–75, including the rates of payment for his work, are still preserved in the library of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Artist biography

Neri de Bicci

Neri was the pupil of his father Bicci di Lorenzo and was influenced by the works of Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi. His earliest documented work is datable c. 1444 but he must have been active as a painter before then. A record of Neri's works from 1453-1475 is preserved in his Libro di Ricordanze in the Uffizi Library. This prolific painter maintained a large workshop whose main assisting members have yet to be clearly distinguished from Neri's own hand.

Provenance

-1884

James Jackson Jarves (1818–1888)

1884-1916

Mrs. Liberty E. Holden (1833-1913), Cleveland, OH

1916-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Hollenden Gallery, James Jackson Jarves, and Liberty Emery Holden. Handbook for Visitors to the Hollenden Gallery of Masters: Exhibited at the Boston Foreign Art Exhibition in 1883-4. [Place of publication not identified]: [J.J. Jarves], 1883. Cat. no. 9

Berenson, Mary Logan, "Dipinti Italiana in Cleveland," Rassegna d'arte VII, no. I (January 1907). p. 2

Thieme, Ulrich, Felix Becker, Fred. C. Willis, and Hans Vollmer. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig: W. Engelmann, 1907. 606

Burroughs, Bryson. “Early Italian Paintings: Lent by Mrs. Liberty Emery Holden.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 7, no. 10 (1912). Cat no. 3 p. 175 www.jstor.org

Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917. Mentioned: p. 13-14, cat. no. 4; Reproduced: p. 50, No. 4 archive.org

G. U. "The Holden Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 19-34. Mentioned: p. 20 www.jstor.org

Marle, Raimond van, and Charlotte van Marle. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1923. 542, 545

Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places. 1932. p. 386

Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places : Florentine School. London: Phaidon Press, 1963. p. 153

Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 1. European Paintings before 1500. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Reproduced: fig. 16, p. 44 - 46

American Exhibition of Foreign Products, Arts & Manufactures. Art Department. [BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS]: [BOSTON. FOREIGN ART EXHIBITION, 1883], 1883. cat. 443

Exhibition history

American Exhibition of Foreign Products, Arts and Manufacturers, Boston, MA (1883).

Loan Exhibition of the Holden Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (1912).

Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).

The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).

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