Fragment from an Adoration of the Christ Child
Antonio Cicognara, Italian, active 1480 - after 1500
Follower of Niccolò da Foligno, Italian, 1430 - 1502
about 1480
Tempera, gesso, goldleaf on wood panel
Overall: 13 × 15 1/8 in. (33 × 38.4 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of the John T. Dallas Estate
P.962.30
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1400-1600
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Nazi-Era Provenance Research
Painting
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Course History
HIST 96.39, Saints and Material Devotion, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Fall 2021
HIST 96.39, Saints and Relics, Cecilia Gaposchkin, Fall 2021
SART 31/SART 72, Painting II/III, Jen Caine, Winter 2022
Music 42.01, Early Classical Music, Richard Beaudoin, Fall 2023
Exhibition History
In Pursuit of Attribution: A New Look at the College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 16-October 23, 1977.
Publication History
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Harvard University Press, Cambrigde, Massachusetts, 1972, p. 246.
Published References
Laura Malaspina and Antonella Ricagni, "Per Antonio Cicognara," Arte Cristiana, vol. 82 (1994): 101-122 (at 101, 107-108, 110-111, note 6, fig.4). Carl Brandon Strehlke and Machtelt Bruggen Israels, eds., The Bernard and Mary Berenson Collection of European Paintings at I Tatti (Florence 2015), p. 197
Provenance
Acquired by Helen Sears Bradley (1889-1966) [Mrs. J. D. Cameron Bradley], by 1938; Estate of The Right Reverend John Thomson Dallas (1880-1961); given to present collection, 1962.
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