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Saint Mary Magdalene Receiving the Host from an Angel
Pietro Lorenzetti (Italian, Sienese, active 1306–1345)
Title
Saint Mary Magdalene Receiving the Host from an Angel
Artist
Pietro Lorenzetti (Italian, Sienese, active 1306–1345)
Date
early 14th century
Medium
tempera on panel
Dimensions
27 × 18 1/2 in. (68.6 × 47 cm)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Gift of Robert Lehman
Object Number
1945.103
On View
On view
Provenance
Achillito Chiesa (1881–1951), Milan, by 1930;
His sale, Achillito Chiesa Collection, Part V, Italian Primitives, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, lot no. 32, as by Pietro Lorenzetti, April 24, 1930.
Possibly purchased at the above sale by Robert Lehman (1891–1969), New York, 1930–1945 [1];
His gift to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, December 19, 1945.
[1] A sticker on the back of the painting indicates it was in Lehman’s collection by 1931, and on loan to the Fogg (now Harvard Art Museums).
His sale, Achillito Chiesa Collection, Part V, Italian Primitives, American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, lot no. 32, as by Pietro Lorenzetti, April 24, 1930.
Possibly purchased at the above sale by Robert Lehman (1891–1969), New York, 1930–1945 [1];
His gift to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, December 19, 1945.
[1] A sticker on the back of the painting indicates it was in Lehman’s collection by 1931, and on loan to the Fogg (now Harvard Art Museums).
Exhibition History
On Loan, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, July 15–September 25,1931; June 4–October 11, 1940.
Published References
American Art Association and Anderson Galleries, Achillito Chiesa Collection, Part V, Italian Primitives (New York: American Art Association, 1930), 11, no. 32, as Pietro Lorenzetti.
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), 109.
Cristina de Benedictis, La Pittura Senese: 1330–1370 (Florence, Italy: Salimbeni libreria editrice, 1979), 34, (repro.).
Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 17–19, (repro.), as workshop of Maso di Banco.
Carlo Volpe and Maruo Lucco, Pietro Lorenzetti (Milan: Electa, 1989), 170, no. 137, (repro.).
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 36–37, (repro.).
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1971), 109.
Cristina de Benedictis, La Pittura Senese: 1330–1370 (Florence, Italy: Salimbeni libreria editrice, 1979), 34, (repro.).
Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 17–19, (repro.), as workshop of Maso di Banco.
Carlo Volpe and Maruo Lucco, Pietro Lorenzetti (Milan: Electa, 1989), 170, no. 137, (repro.).
Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 36–37, (repro.).
