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Title:Madonna and Child
Artist:Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) (Italian, Siena 1405–1481 Siena)
Date:mid-15th century
Medium:Tempera on wood, gold ground
Dimensions:Overall, engaged (modern) frame: 7 in. (17.8 cm) Painted surface: 5 in. (12.7 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number:1975.1.40
Guilio Grisaldi del Taia, Siena, 1904; F. Mason Perkins, Lastra a Signa; E. Ventura, Florence; Knoedler, 1928; R. Frank, New York, December 1937; Knoedler 1941. Acquired by Robert Lehman in 1949.
"Catalogo generale illustrato." Mostra dell’antica arte senese. Aprile-agosto 1904. Exh. cat.Siena, 1904, p. 316.
F. Mason Perkins. "Alcuni dipinti senesi sconosciuti o inediti." Rassegna d'arte 13 (August 1913), p. 123.
F. Mason Perkins. "La pittura alla Mostra d’Arte di Montalcino." Rassegna d'arte 18 (1913), pp. 70, 71 n. 10.
J[oseph]. A[rcher]. Crowe and G[iovanni]. B[attista]. Cavalcaselle. A History of Painting in Italy: Umbria, Florence, and Siena from the Second to the Sixteenth Century. Ed. Tancred Borenius. Vol. 5, Umbrian and Sienese Masters of the Fifteenth Century. London, 1914, p. 173 n. 4.
Emile Gaillard. Un peintre siennois au XVe siècle: Sano di Pietro, 1406–1481. Chambéry, 1923, p. 204.
Raimond van Marle. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. Vol. 9, Late Gothic Painting in Tuscany. The Hague, 1927, p. 483. Fig. 306.
"Back Matter." The Burlington Magazine 56 (1930), p. LVIII.
Bernhard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 500.
The sixteenth loan exhibition of old masters, Italian paintings of the XIV to XVI century, the Detroit Institute of arts, March 8 to 30, 1933. Exh. cat.Detroit, 1933, no. 52.
"A special loan exhibition from the collection of M. Knoedler & Co., Inc." Masterpieces of Italian religious paintings, XIV to XVIII century. Exh. cat.New York, 1949, no. 4.
Charles Sterling, ed. Exposition de la collection Lehman de New York. Exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie. Paris, 1957, pp. 38-39, no. 47.
The Lehman Collection. Exh. cat.Cincinnati, 1959, p. 16, no. 42.
Bernard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools. Vol. 1, London, 1968, pp. 253, 376.
Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. Vol. 1, New York, 1980, p. 166.
Cecilia Alessi and Piero Scapecchi. ""Il Maestro dell’Osservanza": Sano di Pietro o Francesco di Bartolomeo?" Prospettiva 42 (1985), pp. 21-22. Fig. 12.
John Pope-Hennessy assisted by Laurence B. Kanter inThe Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 1, Italian Paintings. New York, 1987, pp. 144-45, no. 60.
Keith Christiansen inPainting in Renaissance Siena: 1420–1500. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1988, pp. 95, 135-36, no. 13.
Keith Christiansen. "Notes on 'Painting in Renaissance Siena'." Burlington Magazine 132 (March 1990), p. 209.
Timothy J. Newbery, George Bisacca, and Laurence B. Kanter. Italian Renaissance Frames. Exh. cat.New York, 1990, pp. 27, 29, no. 25.
Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 51.
Gianni Mazzoni. Quadri antichi del Novecento. Vicenza, 2001, pp. 135-149, 428-429, nos. 182-183.
Miklós Boskovits inItalian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. Washington, 2003, p. 480 n. 8, n. 9.
Carl Brandon Strehlke. Italian Paintings 1250–1450 in the John G. Johnson Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia, 2004, pp. 298-99, 301. Fig. 52.9.
Timothy J. Newbery. The Robert Lehman Collection: Frames. Vol. 13, New York, 2007, p. 23, no. 15.
Old Master Paintings. Sotheby's, London. July 9, 2008, Lot 08033
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Andrea De Marchi inDa Jacopo della Quercia a Donatello: le arti a Siena nel primo rinascimento. Ed. Max Seidel. Exh. cat., Santa Maria della Scala et al., Siena. Milan, 2010, pp. 272, 274.
Luciano Bellosi. "Considerazioni introduttive al problema dell’identificazione tra il "Maestro dell’Osservanza" e Sano di Pietro." Sano di Pietro: qualità, devozione e pratica nella pittura senese del Quattrocento. Milan, 2012, pp. 46, 233, Pl. 9b.
Andrea De Marchi. "Sano di Pietro prima della Pala dei Gesuati e il "Maestro dell’Osservanza": aporie di una doppia identità." Sano di Pietro: qualità, devozione e pratica nella pittura senese del Quattrocento. Milan, 2012, pp. 58-61, 75, 77. Fig. 4, 13.
Gaudenz Freuler. "Sano di Pietro, la sua fortuna critica e il "problema" del Maestro dell’Osservanza." Sano di Pietro: qualità, devozione e pratica nella pittura senese del Quattrocento. Milan, 2012, p. 31.
Michel Laclotte. "Quelques remarques sur le "cas" Sano di Pietro." Sano di Pietro: qualità, devozione e pratica nella pittura senese del Quattrocento. Milan, 2012, p. 90.
Workshop of Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) (Italian, Siena 1405–1481 Siena)
ca. 1448–60
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