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Collection Online as of April 21, 2024

Virgin and Child with Saints

Virgin and Child with Saints

c. 1510
oil on wood
Framed: 109.5 x 149.9 x 9.5 cm (43 1/8 x 59 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 77.8 x 118.7 cm (30 5/8 x 46 3/4 in.)
Holden Collection 1916.796
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The Virgin Mary is often depicted wearing blue and red, symbolizing her purity and devotion.

Description

What are some of the key steps in conserving this picture?

While it may seem disturbing, the condition of this work is not unusual for a 16th-century panel painting. Treatment was abandoned decades ago when the conservator who was cleaning the work left the museum. Brilliant colors and beautiful original passages remain, including expressive folds of red drapery and delicate flesh tones. New technical research could tell us more about how the panel was painted and subsequently treated. Identifying the artist is another key step that would help conservators reconstruct distinctive passages like hands and facial features. A painting by Francesco Bissolo in Munich (below) is closely related in subject and style and may provide some clues.
  • Duke of Mantua (?)
    Grassi(?)
    James Jackson Jarves
    1884-1916
    Mrs. Liberty E. Holden [1838-1932] Cleveland,OH by gift to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1916-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • 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. S.l: J.J. Jarves, 1883. Reproduced: no. 415
    Thieme, Ulrich, Felix Becker, Fred. C. Willis, and Hans Vollmer. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Leipzig, Germany: W. Engelmann, 1907. Reproduced: p. 656, vol. XI (1915)
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 468; Mentioned: p. 469
    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. 18-19, cat. no. 13 archive.org
    Coe, Nancy. "Cleveland Private Collections," Volume II: "Catalogue of European Paintings and Drawings in Cleveland Private Collections," M.A. thesis, Department of Fine Arts, Oberlin College, 1955. Reproduced: p. 83, no. 13, vol. II
    Heinemann, Fritz, and Josef Nolte. Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani. Venezia, Italy: N. Pozza, 1962. Reproduced: p. 528, fig. 596
    Alte Pinakothek (Munich, Germany), Rolf Kultzen, and Peter Eikemeier. Venezianische Gemälde Des 15. [Fünfzehnten] Und 16. [Sechzehnten] Jahrhunderts: Vollst. Katalog. München, Germany: Bayer. Staatsgemäldesammlungen, 1971. Reproduced: p. 69
    Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972. Mentioned: p. 71, 352-353, 573
    Tempestini, Anchise, and Giovanni Bellini. Bellini e belliniani in Romagna. Firenze, Italy: Octavo, 1998. Reproduced: p. 103
  • Stories From Storage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).
    American Exhibition of Foreign Products, Arts, and Manufactures: Art Department, Jarves Collection. Boston, MA (1883).
    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).
    Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).
    Loan Exhibition of the Holden Collection. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (October, 1912).
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1916.796