Virgin and Child with Saint Bernardino, Saint Jerome and Two Angels, between 1405 and 1481

  • Sano di Pietro, Italian, 1405-1481

Tempera on wood panel

  • Unframed: 25 × 16 3/4 inches (63.5 × 42.5 cm)
  • 25 1/8 × 17 1/8 × 2 3/16 inches (63.8 × 43.5 × 5.6 cm)

Gift of Sir Joseph Duveen

24.107

On View

  • European: Medieval and Renaissance Gothic Chapel, Level 2, West

Department

European Painting

19th century, private collection (England)

1921, (Durlacher Brothers, New York, New York, USA)

1923, (R. Langton Douglas, London, England)

(J. Duveen, New York, New York, USA and London, England)

1924-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Gaillard, E. Un Peintre Siennois du XVe Siècle, Sano di Pietro. Chambery, 1923 p. 102. Valentiner, W.R. "Sienese Paintings of the XIV to XV Centuries." Bulletin of the Detroit Institute of Arts 6, no. 4 (January 1925): 34-39, pp. 37–38 (ill.). L'Amour de L'Art 7 (1926) p. 70. Van Marle, R. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, Vol. IX: Late Gothic Painting in Tuscany. The Hague, 1927, pp. 496, 528. Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 199 (ill.). Berenson, B. Italian pictures of the Renaissance; A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places. Oxford, 1932, p. 499. Berenson, B. Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento. Milan, 1936, p. 429. Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, p. 117, no. 199. Paintings in the Detroit Institute of Arts: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 96. [as Madonna & Child with SS. Bernardino and Jerome] Berenson, B. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places. Vol. 1, Central Italian and North Italian Schools. London, 1968, p. 375. Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 181. Secrest, Meryle. Duveen: a life in art. New York, 2004, p. 488.

Sano di Pietro, Virgin and Child with Saint Bernardino, Saint Jerome and Two Angels, between 1405 and 1481, tempera on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Sir Joseph Duveen, 24.107.