Title:
Trajan and the Widow
Maker:
Unknown; painter
Category:
painting
Name:
painting
School/Style(s):
Italian; Sienese School
Period:
last quarter of the 15th Century
Description:
Desco del parto, or salver made in this instance, for a marriage.
Technique:
painting (image-making)
Material(s):
egg tempera; medium
gold; medium
silver; medium
panel (wood); support
Technique
Description:
tempera with gold and silver on panel
Dimension:
diameter, painted surface, 57.7, cm
Acquisition:
bequeathed; 1912; Marlay, Charles Brinsley
Provenance:
Sir Thomas Andros de la Rue, Bart.; his posthumous sale Christie's, 16 June 1911 (41), bt. Marlay
Inscription:
; in the sky; IVTVS. SVB. PALMA. FLOREBIT (see catalogue for an accurate transcription)
Documentation:
Goodison, J.W.. Robertson, G.H.. 1967. Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Italian School.Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Pressp. 157-158
Constable, William George. 1927. Catalogue of Pictures in the Marlay Bequest, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press
pl. VI
Schubring, Paul. 1915. Cassoni: Truhen und Truhenbilder der italienischen Frührenaissance/ ein Beitrag zur Profanmalerei im Quattrocento von Paul Schubring.Leipzig: Hiersemann
pl. VII
Goodison, J.W.. 1967. [Unknown; Illustrated London News; 1960].London:
Source Title: Illustrated London News II (1960)
p. 291
Accession:
Object Number: M.30
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 630; input: 1999-12-16; modified: 2007-09-10)
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Identifier:
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