Collection Online as of September 24, 2023
c. 1470
Tempera on poplar panel
Framed: 121.3 x 80.7 x 10.2 cm (47 3/4 x 31 3/4 x 4 in.); Panel: 96.7 x 59 cm (38 1/16 x 23 1/4 in.)
Holden Collection 1916.789
Francesco Botticini He was the son of Giovanni di Domenico, a painter of playing cards, and the father of Raffaello Botticini (1477-1520, last recorded date). The documents call him Francesco di Giovanni. He probably is the painter who entered the studio of Neri di Bicci in October 1459. His eclectic painting follows in the tradition of his master, Neri di Bicci, and after the style of several of his contemporaries such as Cosimo Rosselli, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, and Verrocchio. The group of paintings ascribed to him is diversified enough and in some cases so vernacular as to cause some question as to its homogeneity. His one documented work is a tabernacle at Empoli, commissioned in 1484 and more or less finished by 1491.
Provenance James Jackson Jarves (1884); Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, Cleveland, Ohio, 1884
Citations
Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella.
Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917. Mentioned: p. 11-12, cat. no. 2; Reproduced: p. 49, No. 2
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G. U. "The Holden Collection."
The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 19-34. Mentioned: p. 20; reproduced: p. 33
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The Cleveland Museum of Art.
The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 400
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The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966 . Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 80
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The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969 . Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 80
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Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 1. European Paintings before 1500. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Reproduced: fig. 20, p. 54 - 56; colorplate XII
The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978 . Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 91
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Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952. Reproduced: p. 53
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Exhibition history
Boston Foreign Art Exhibition, 1883-4, no. 3
Early Italian Paintings lent by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October, 1912, no. 10
Inaugural Exhibition of The Cleveland Museum of Art, June 6- Sept. 20, 1916, no. 2
CMA Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1936, cat. no 74, pl. X
Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage, CMA, 1971, no. 9
Inaugural Exhibition . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).
The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936).
The Madonna in Art . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 9, 1947-February 9, 1948).
Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971).
