Studio of Jacopo del Sellaio (Florence 1441-1493)
PROPERTY FROM THE INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART AT NEWFIELDS, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ART ACQUISITIONS FUND
Studio of Jacopo del Sellaio (Florence 1441-1493)

The Madonna adoring the Christ Child, with Saint John the Baptist beyond

Details
Studio of Jacopo del Sellaio (Florence 1441-1493)
The Madonna adoring the Christ Child, with Saint John the Baptist beyond
oil on panel, arched top
32 x 19 ¼ in. (81.3 x 48.9 cm.)
Provenance
Baron Michele Lazzaroni (d. 1937), Rome.
Booth Tarkington (1869-1946), Indianapolis.
with Ehrich Gallery, New York, by 1919.
James E. Roberts, Indianapolis, by whom gifted to the John Herron Art Institute, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, Indiana in 1924.
Literature
'Catalogue of Ten Primitives from the James E. Roberts Collection', The Bulletin of the Art Association of Indianapolis Indiana, XI, nos. 5-6, May-June 1924, pp. 34-35, illustrated.
'A Survey of the Collection', The Bulletin of the Art Association of Indianapolis Indiana, XXIII, no. 1, January 1936, no. 1.
R. Tschaegle, 'Italian Paintings of the Permanent Collection,' The Bulletin of the Art Association of Indianapolis Indiana, XXVII, no. 1, March 1940, pp. 8,10, 18, n. 3, illustrated on the cover.
D.C. Miller, Catalogue of European Paintings, Indianapolis, 1970, p. 11, as Studio of Jacopo del Sellaio.
B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, Mass., 1972, p. 186.
Exhibited
Muskegon, MI, Hackley Art Gallery, 1919.
Chicago, University of Chicago, Exhibition of Italian Primitives, 8-20 March 1920, no. 11.
Boston, MA. Vose Galleries, Paintings by old masters from the Ehrich Galleries, 13-25 February 1922.

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