Sandro Botticelli
Madonna Adoring the Child with Five Angels
1484
Physical Qualities
Tempera and oil on wood panel, 52 1/4 in. diam. (132.7 cm.)
Credit Line
The Mary Frick Jacobs Collection
Object Number
1938.226
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1938; Mary Frick Jacobs, Baltimore, MD by purchase, 1912; Blakeslee Galleries, New York, NY, 1912; private collector by purchase, 1905; Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd.; Ashburton Collection Sale, Christie’s London, July 8, 1905, lot 12; Lady Louisa Ashburton by descent, 1864; Lord Ashburton, Sir William Bingham Baring by purchase, 1863; Bromley Collection Sale, Christie’s London, June 12, 1863, lot 85; The Reverend Walter Davenport Bromley, London, UK; Cardinal Joseph Fesch, Rome.
Burlington House, “Old Masters Exhibition,” 1904.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, “200 Objects in The Baltimore Museum of Art: A Picture Book,” 1955.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, “The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum,” 2014.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, “200 Objects in The Baltimore Museum of Art: A Picture Book,” 1955.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, “The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum,” 2014.
G. F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, vol. 3 (London: John Murray, 1854), p. 376.
G.N. Plunkett, Sandro Botticelli (London: George Bell & Sons, 1900), p. 101.
J.A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in Italy, vol. 4 (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1911), pp. 261, 266.
Y. Yashiro, Sandro Botticelli, vol 1 (London: The Medici Society, 1926), p. 238.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932), pp. 101, 102.
B. Caroll, “Floral Symbolism in an Early Florentine Painting,” Baltimore Museum of Art News 18, no. 2 December 1954, pp. 1–3.
Elizabeth Packard, “The Restoration of Two Paintings in the Jacobs Collection,”
Baltimore Museum of Art News 18, no. 2 December 1954, pp. 3–5, 8–9.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, “200 Objects in The Baltimore Museum of Art: A Picture Book,” 1955, p. 18.
The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD) December 22, 1975., pp. 8–9, repr.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, vol. 1 (London: Phaidon Press, 1963), p. 33.
G. Mandel and C. Bo, L’Opera completa del Botticelli (Milan: Rizzoli, 1967), p. 99, no. 92.
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century
Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972), p. 33.
Gertrude Rosenthal, ed., Italian Paintings XIV-XVIIIth Centuries from the collection of The
Baltimore Museum of Art (Baltimore, 1980), pp. 55–65, ill. p. 54.
Lisa Venturini, Francesco Botticini, Florence: EDIFER - Edizioni Firenze, 1994.
“A Grand Legacy,” Baltimore Museum of Art News (January-February 2003), pp. 4-5 ill.
“60 Objects Countless Stories,” BMA Today (Winter 2008–2009), pp. 6-7, ill. p. 6.
Fillion, Susan. Miss Etta and Dr. Claribel: Bringing Matisse to America. Boston: David R. Godine, 2011, page 21.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, “The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum,” 2014, pp. 34–35.
On View: Jacobs, Gallery 7
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