Giovanni di Paolo
Saint Clare Rescuing a Child Mauled by a Wolf

ArtistItalian (Sienese), c. 1399–c. 1482
CultureItalian (Sienese)
Titles
  • Saint Clare Rescuing a Child Mauled by a Wolf
Datec. 1455–1460
PlaceItaly
MediumTempera and gold leaf on panel
DimensionsPanel: 8 1/8 × 11 1/2 in. (20.6 × 28.1 cm)
Frame: 9 15/16 × 13 5/16 × 2 1/8 in. (25.2 × 33.8 × 5.4 cm)

Credit LineThe Edith A. and Percy S. Straus Collection
Object number44.571
Non exposé

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ProvenanceSir John Peter Boileau, Baronet, Ketteringham Hall, Norfolk, England, by 1854; his grandson Sir Frederick Raymond Boileau (d. 1942), Baronet; Henry Harris, London, by 1930; Edward Hutton; Percy S. Straus, December 28, 1931; bequeathed to MFAH, 1944.
Exhibition History"Art Treasures of the United Kingdom Collected at Manchester in 1857," Manchester, England, 1857.

"Italian Art," Galleries of the Royal Academy, Burlington House, London, January–March, 1930.

"Landscape: An Exhibition of Paintings," Brooklyn Museum, 1945–1946.

"Exhibition of Masterpieces, East and West, from American Museum Collections; from Ancient Egypt through Contemporary," Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, September 10–October 17, 1976; National Museum Kyoto, November 1–December 5, 1976.

"Painting in Renaissance Siena: 1420-1500," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, December 19, 1988–March 19, 1989.

“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.

"Sacred Treasures: Early Italian Paintings from Southern Collections," Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, October 12, 2002–January 5, 2003; Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama, January 26–April 2003; John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, April–July 2003.

"Sanctity Pictured: The Art of the Dominican and Franciscan Orders in Renaissance Italy," The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, October 31, 2014–January 25, 2015.

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

"Saint Francis of Assisi," The National Gallery, London, May 6–July 30, 2023.
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