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SM P150. ©Sir John Soane's Museum, London. Photo: Art UK
After Fra Bartolommeo (1472 - 1517)
The Virgin and Child, surrounded by Saints
Probably post 1579; not later than 1673-74.
Oil on copper
Height: 48cm
Width: 38cm
Width: 38cm
Museum number: P150
On display: Monk's Parlour
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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Curatorial note
A copy after 'La Vierge aux Saints' (the Carondelet Madonna), an altar piece in Besancon Cathedral (1512). There are a number of copies in existence and this one cannot be precisely dated. It is probably later than the 1570s but before 1674 because it shows a figure of Mary Magdalen which was painted over the portrait of the donor, Ferry Carondelet, in the 1570s but removed c.1674.
Provenance
The painting was acquired in or before 1804 when Soane paid (18 May 1804) for having a 'picture on copper, sacred history' cleaned.
Literature
Britton, John, The Union of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, 1827, p.42
Soane, John, Description of the Residence of Sir John Soane: 1830 edition, p.5, 1835 p.26
Curie, Dr. Pierre, 'Representations de Ferry Carondelet', Matiere et Figure, Paris, Edition de la Documentation Française, 1992, pp.221-236
New Description of Sir John Soane's Museum (guidebook), 2007, p.39
Soane, John, Description of the Residence of Sir John Soane: 1830 edition, p.5, 1835 p.26
Curie, Dr. Pierre, 'Representations de Ferry Carondelet', Matiere et Figure, Paris, Edition de la Documentation Française, 1992, pp.221-236
New Description of Sir John Soane's Museum (guidebook), 2007, p.39
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