Description
This panel was probably part of a small altarpiece of private devotion. The artist was active in Florence and Siena following the Black Death, which began in the late 1340s. His works, like others created during that troubled time, are charged with emotion.
Provenance
Minor K. Kellogg (1814-1889), Paris, France and Cleveland, Ohio (By 1858-1889); Liberty E. Holden (1833-1913), Cleveland, Oh, by inheritance to his wife, Delia E. Bulkley Holden (1889-1913); Delia E. Bulkley Holden (1871-1947), Cleveland, Oh, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art (1913-1916); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Oh (1916-)
Accession Number
1916.776
Medium
tempera and gold on wood (walnut)
Dimensions
Unframed: 31 x 13.4 cm (12 3/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Holden Collection