Virgin Enthroned with Saints, Nativity and Crucifixion, ca. between 1335 and 1350

  • Maso di Banco, Italian, active 1335-1350

Tempera on wood panel

  • Overall (Open): 22 7/8 × 20 1/2 × 2 7/8 inches (58.1 × 52.1 × 7.3 cm) Overall (Closed): 22 7/8 × 13 1/4 × 2 inches (58.1 × 33.7 × 5.1 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

25.41

Two labels, on verso: T151

On back, two labels with number T151

Sterpini (Ferrara, Italy)

by inheritence to Count Magnonii (Ferrara, Italy)

Marcelle Nicolle (Paris, France)

1920, Hermann Heilbuth (Copenhagen, Denmark)

1925, (Rene Trotti, Paris, France)

(Bourgeois Galleries, New York, New York, USA)

1925-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings. Exh. cat., Danish Museum of Fine Art. Copenhagen, 1920, p. 4, no. 3 (ill.). Valentiner, W.R. "Early Florentine Paintings." Bulletin of the DIA 7, no. 2 (November 1925): pp. 18-21, pp. 18-19 (ill.). [as by follower of Bernardo Daddi.] Comstock, H. "The Bernardo Daddis in the United States." International Studio 89 no. 370, part 2 (March 1928): pp. 71-76, 90, p. 76 (ill.). [central panel as by follower of Bernardo Gaddi, the wings as by follower of Taddeo Gaddi.] Heil, W. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1930, cat. 49 (ill.). [as Manner of Bernardo Daddi.] Coletti, L. "Contributo al problema Maso-Giottino." Emporium 96 (November 1942): p. 470. [as by the Master of the Louvre Crucifixion.] Valentiner, W.R. Italian Gothic Painting. Detroit, 1944, pp. 23, 25 (fig. 10). [reattributed panel to Maso di Banco.] Richardson, E.P., ed. Detroit Institute of Arts Catalogue of Paintings, 2nd ed. Detroit, 1944, pp. 83-84, no. 49 (ill.). Paintings in the DIA: A Checklist of the Paintings Acquired Before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 72. Fredericksen, B. and F. Zeri. Census of Pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 123 [as School of Maso di Banco.] Boskovitz, M. Pittura fiorentina alla Vigilia del Rinascimento, 1370-1400. Florence, 1975, p. 199, note 85. Wilkins, D. Maso di Banco: A Florentine Artist of the Early Trecento. New York and London, 1985, p. 200, cat. B-12. Garland Dissertations in the Fine Arts.

Maso di Banco, Virgin Enthroned with Saints, Nativity and Crucifixion, ca. between 1335 and 1350, tempera on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 25.41.