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Title:Saint Anne and the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Angels
Artist:Niccolò Alunno (Niccolò di Liberatore) (Italian, Umbria, active by ca. 1456–died 1502)
Date:ca. 1458–61
Medium:Tempera and gold on wood
Dimensions:47 3/8 x 27 1/8 in. (120.3 x 68.9 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Object Number:1975.1.107
Inscription: Inscribed: (base) NT. ESSE[T]; (bottom of Virgin's cloak) AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA DOM[INVS] TECVM BENEDICTA
Sir Kenneth Matheson, Gladfield House, Ardgay, Rosshire, Scotland; R. Langton Douglas, London. Acquired by Philip Lehman before 1921.
F. Mason Perkins. "Dipinti inediti di Niccolò da Foligno." Rassenga d'arte umbra 3 (1921), pp. 38-40.
F. Mason Perkins. "Un dipinto sconosciuto di Niccolò da Foligno e un quadro di Fiorenzo di Lorenzo." Rassegna d'arte umbra 3 (1921), p. 3.
Umberto Gnoli. Pittori e miniatori nell'Umbria. Spoleto, 1923, p. 215.
Robert Lehman. The Philip Lehman Collection, New York: Paintings. Paris, 1928, Pl. 69
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Lionello Venturi. Pitture italiane in America. Milan, 1931, no. 239.
F. Mason Perkins. "Niccolò di Liberatore." Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. Vol. 25, Leipzig, 1931.
Bernhard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932, p. 393.
Raimond van Marle. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. Vol. 14, The Hague, 1933, p. 39.
Bernard Berenson. Pitture italiane del Rinascimento: catalogo dei principali artisti e delle loro opere con un indice dei luoghi. Valori plastici, Milan, 1936, p. 338.
Luigi Grassi. Pittura Umbra del Quattrocento. Rome, 1952, p. 48.
The Lehman Collection. Exh. cat.Cincinnati, 1959, no 87.
Bernard Berenson. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools. Vol. 1, London, 1968, p. 297.
George Szabó. The Robert Lehman Collection: A Guide. New York, 1975, p. 30, pl. 45.
John Ferrata Omelia. Niccolò da Foligno and His Frescoes for the S. Maria-in-Campis. New York, 1975, p. 31.
John Pope-Hennessy assisted by Laurence B. Kanter inThe Robert Lehman Collection. Vol. 1, Italian Paintings. New York, 1987, pp. 198-199, no. 84.
Filippo Todini and Elvio Lunghi. Niccolò di Liberatore detto l’Alunno. Foligno, 1987.
Filippo Todini. La pittura umbra dal Duecento al primo Cinquecento. Milan, 1989, pp. 240-245.
Filippo Todini. Niccolò Alunno in Umbria: Guia alle opere de Niccolò di Liberatore detto l’Alunno nelle chiese e nei musei della regione. Assisi, 1993, pp. 29-39, 44.
Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 123.
Filippo Todini. Niccolò Alunno e la sua bottega. Perugia, 2004, pp. 216, 523-524, cat. no. IV.10.
Sue Ann Chui. "Lorenzo d’Alessandro da Sanseverino’s ‘Crucifixion: St. Michael’: Art Historical Context and Technical Analysis of an Italian Fifteenth-Century Double-Sided Processional Standard." The Journal of the Walters Art Museum 63 (2005), p. 54.
Lorenzo Monaco (Piero di Giovanni) (Italian, Florence (?) ca. 1370–1425 Florence (?))
ca. 1406
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