God the Father

Ambrogio Bevilacqua  (Italian, Milan, active by 1481–at least 1512)

Medium:
Oil on wood
Dimensions:
Overall, including frame, 20 1/2 x 38 1/2 in. (52.1 x 97.8 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Bequest of George Blumenthal, 1941
Accession Number:
41.190.40b
  • Catalogue Entry

    Forthcoming

  • Provenance

    George Blumenthal, New York (by 1926–d. 1941; cat., vol. 2, 1926, pl. XXXIII)

  • References

    Stella Rubinstein-Bloch. "Sculpture and Bronzes, Mediaeval and Renaissance." Catalogue of the Collection of George and Florence Blumenthal. 2, Paris, 1926, pl. XXXIII, illustrates this as the lunette of the frame around "A Relief in Stucco Representing the Virgin and Child," by Antonio Rossellino (MMA, 41.190.40a).

    Raffaele Casciaro. Letter to James Draper. August 8, 1997, believes that this lunette could be by Ambrogio Bevilacqua, or at least by a Milanese painter very close to him at the end of the fifteenth century.



  • Notes

    An oval panel depicting the head of God the Father, by Ambrogio Bevilacqua, is in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan ("Pinacoteca di Brera: Scuole lombarda e piemontese, 1300–1535," Milan, 1988, pp. 114–16, no. 90, ill.).

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