Virgin and Child

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Artist Master of the Sienese Straus Madonna(Italian (Sienese), c. 1340–1360)Italian (Sienese), c. 1340–1360

CultureItalian (Sienese)

Titles

Virgin and Child

Datec. 1340–1350

PlaceSiena, Italy

MediumTempera and gold leaf on panel

DimensionsPanel: 32 1/8 × 17 3/4 in. (81.6 × 45.1 cm)
Frame: 39 1/4 × 23 3/16 in. (99.7 × 58.9 cm)

Credit LineThe Edith A. and Percy S. Straus Collection

Object number44.564

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

202 Willis Education Gallery

Exposé

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Department

Arts of Europe and the Mediterranean

Special Collections

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenancePrivate collection, Scotland, as "Byzantine Madonna;" [Captain R. Langton Douglas, London] [1]; acquired by Edith A. and Percy C. Straus, 1923; bequeathed to MFAH, 1944.

[1] R. Langton Douglas was an art historian and the director of the National Gallery of Ireland, 1916–1923.
Exhibition History“Masterpieces of European Painting from the 15th to 20th Centuries from The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation," The Museum of Art, Ehime, Matsuyama, Japan, April 13–May 30, 1999; Chiba Prefectural Art Museum, Japan, June 5–July 11, 1999; Mie Prefectural Art Museum, Tsu, Japan, July 17–August 22, 1999; Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan, August 27–October 3, 1999.

"Passion for Perfection: The Straus Collection of Renaissance Art," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 21, 2017–June 17, 2018.

"Gotico Americano: I Maestri della Madonna Straus dal Museum of Fine Arts di Houston, Texas," Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome, September 27, 2018–January 27, 2019.
Published References "Catalogue of the Edith A. and Percy S. Straus Collection," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1945 "The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: A Guide to the Collection," intro. by William C. Agee, entry by Jack L. Schrader, No. 38 (1981) Dr. Carolyn C. Wilson, "Italian Paintings XIV-XVI in The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in association with Rice University Press and Merrell Holberton Publishers, London, 1996, cat. no. 1 Bowron, Edgar Peters and Mary G. Morton, "Masterworks of European Painting in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000, pp. 2-4. "Masterpieces of European Painting from the 15th to 20th Centuries from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation," published by the Museum of Art, Ehime; Chiba Prefectural Art Museum; Mie Prefectural Art Museum; Fukuoka Art Museum; and the Yomiuri Shimbun, the Japan Association of Art Museums, 1999. (Exhibition catalog in Japanese only.) pp. 52-54, illus. 53, cat. no. 1.

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