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Artist
Master of Badia a Isola | Italian
Creation date
about 1320
Materials
tempera and gold on wood
Dimensions
24 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.
Credit line
The Clowes Collection
Accession number
2009.52
Collection
Currently On View
This anonymous artist, named after an altarpiece in Badia a Isola (near Siena), may have been active in the workshop of Duccio, one of the most important Italian painters of the late 13th-early 14th century. His work blends progressive stylistic elements, such as the subtle tonal modeling of the faces and hands, with the persistent conservatism of the patterned gold striations in the Virgin's robe. This type of Byzantine chrysography was widely applied in Italian painting before Duccio introduced a more naturalistic, three-dimensional style in the mid-1280s.
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Konopite Castle, near Prague, Czechoslovakia, probably by 1914.{1}Count Sighard von Enzenberg, Schloss Tratzberg, Austria, probably before 1914.{2} (E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York); Dr. George Henry Alexander Clowes [1877-1958], Indianapolis, by 1936; {3}The Clowes Fund Collection, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1958-present; IMA.
{1}This provenance information is included in the exhibition catalogue Art unites Nations, E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, 1957, no. 1 (ill).
{2}See Paintings from the Collection of George Henry Alexander Clowes: A Memorial Exhibition, John Herron Art Museum, 1959, cat. no. 21 (ill.). It is identified as being in the von Enzenberg Collection by Hilde Weigelt, "Madonna mit Kind von Segna de Bonaventura," Pantheon, XVIII, 1936, p. 258 (ill.).
{3} It was published with a Clowes Collection credit line in Raimond van Marle, "Two unknown paintings by Duccio de Buoninsegna," Apollo, October 1936, p. 214. G.H.A. Clowes purchased many paintings from E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York.
{1}This provenance information is included in the exhibition catalogue Art unites Nations, E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York, 1957, no. 1 (ill).
{2}See Paintings from the Collection of George Henry Alexander Clowes: A Memorial Exhibition, John Herron Art Museum, 1959, cat. no. 21 (ill.). It is identified as being in the von Enzenberg Collection by Hilde Weigelt, "Madonna mit Kind von Segna de Bonaventura," Pantheon, XVIII, 1936, p. 258 (ill.).
{3} It was published with a Clowes Collection credit line in Raimond van Marle, "Two unknown paintings by Duccio de Buoninsegna," Apollo, October 1936, p. 214. G.H.A. Clowes purchased many paintings from E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York.