Bartolomeo Vivarini

The Madonna and Child before a red curtain. Bartolomeo Vivarini

signed and dated on the cartellino lower right: OPVS·FACTVM·PER·BARTHOLOMEV[M] / M[ ]M·VIVA·RI[N]VM·DEMVRIANO 1472
tempera on panel, transferred to canvas, laid down on panel, gold ground
32 3/4 by 25 3/4 in.; 83.2 by 65.4 cm.

Provenance
Private collection, Paris, until 1897;
With Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1897;
From whom acquired by Theodore M. Davis (1897-1915), Newport, Rhode Island;
By whom bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. no. 30.95.277.

Literature
B. Berenson, The Venetian Painters of the Renaissance, 3rd ed. New York 1897, p. 144;
J. Breck, "Dipinti italiani nella raccolta del Signor Teodoro Davis," in Rassegna d'arte, 11, July 1911, p. 111 (as circa 1480, doubting the date of 1472 that appears in the inscription);
B. Berenson, Venetian Painting in America: The Fifteenth Century, New York 1916, pp. 16–17, reproduced fig. 9 (reads the date as either 1472 or 1477);
B. Burroughs, "The Theodore M. Davis Bequest: The Paintings," in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 26, section 2, March 1931, pp. 14, 16;
L. Venturi, Pitture italiane in America, Milan 1931, unpaginated, reproduced plate CCLXVIII;
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford 1932, p. 602 (leaves the last digit of the date in question);
L. Venturi, "Fifteenth Century Renaissance," Italian Paintings in America, vol. II, New York 1933, unpaginated, reproduced plate 358;
H. Tietze, Meisterwerke europäischer Malerei in Amerika, Vienna 1935, p. 327, reproduced plate 62 [English ed., Masterpieces of European Painting in America, New York 1939, p. 311, reproduced plate 62];
B. Berenson, Pitture italiane del rinascimento, Milan 1936, p. 518 (as dated 1470);
R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, The Renaissance Painters of Venice, vol. XVIII, The Hague 1936, pp. 109–10;
B. Fleischmann, in Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, vol. 34, Leipzig 1940, p. 451;
H.B. Wehle, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Italian, Spanish, and Byzantine Paintings, New York 1940, pp. 177-78, reproduced;
L. Coletti, Pittura veneta del Quattrocento, Novara 1953, p. XLVIII, reproduced plate 97;
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, London 1957, vol. I, p. 202 (as dated 1470);
R. Pallucchini, "Due Madonne inedite di Alvise Vivarini," in Arte veneta, 11, 1957, p. 198;
R. Pallucchini, I Vivarini, Venice 1962, pp. 45, 120, cat. no. 158, reproduced fig. 158;
B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1972, pp. 211, 320, 607;
F. Zeri and E.E. Gardner, Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Venetian School, New York 1973, p. 91, reproduced plate 102;
K. Baetjer, European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Artists Born in or Before 1865, A Summary Catalogue, New York 1980, vol. I, p. 193, reproduced vol. II, p. 112;
K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, by Artists Born in or Before 1865, A Summary Catalogue, New York 1995, p. 69, reproduced p. 68;
A. De Marchi, in A. Scarpa and M. Lupo (ed.s), Fascino del bello: opere d'arte dalla collezione Terruzzi, exhibition catalogue, Rome 2007, p. 409, under cat. no. I.16.

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