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Madonna Adoring Sleeping Child
Andrea da Murano, Italian, fl. 1462–1512
y1935-47
Information
Title
Madonna Adoring Sleeping Child
Maker
Medium
Tempera on wood panel
Dimensions
58.5 x 45.4 cm (23 1/16 x 17 7/8 in.)
frame: 96.5 x 74 x 9 cm (38 x 29 1/8 x 3 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Henry White Cannon, Jr., Class of 1910, in memory of his Father
Object Number
y1935-47
Culture
Materials
Subject
Jean Paul Richter (1847-1937); Purchased for Henry White Cannon (1850-1934) after 1914; by descent to his son, Henry (Harry) W. Cannon, Jr. (1887-1966), Class of 1910; Donated to the Museum in 1935.
- Bernard Berenson, Venetian painting in America: the fifteenth century, (New York: F. F. Sherman, 1916). , p. 64
- Raimond van Marle, The development of the Italian schools of painting, (The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1923-1938)., Vol. 14: p. 52
- Bernard Berenson, Italian pictures of the Renaissance: a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of places, (Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1932)., p. 402
- Jean Paul Richter, The Cannon Collection of italian paintings of the Renaissance: mostly of the Veronese School..., (Princeton, NJ: Princetion University Press, 1936)., no. 4; p. 9-10; fig. 4
- Federico Zeri, "A note on Andrea da Murano", Art quarterly 31 (1968): p. 76-82., fig. 5; p. 76-82
- B. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of pre-nineteenth-century Italian paintings in North American collections, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972)., p.623
- Alberta De Nicolò Salmazo, "Un nuovo Andrea da Murano al Museo di Castelvecchio", Arte Veneta, Rivista di Storia dell'Arte 1977, 31 (1978): p. 181-185., p. 181-85; p. 182 (illus.)
