Nardo di Cione (Italian, Florentine, active 1343–1356/1366). Christ Blessing, mid 14th century. Tempera and tooled gold on panel, 8 x 9 in. (20.3 x 22.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by The Dave H. and Reba W. Williams Foundation, Healy Purchase Fund B, and the Mary Smith Dorward Fund, gift of George S. Hellman, by exchange, 2000.27 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2000.27_PS1.jpg)
Nardo di Cione (Italian, Florentine, active 1343–1356/1366). Christ Blessing, mid 14th century. Tempera and tooled gold on panel, 8 x 9 in. (20.3 x 22.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by The Dave H. and Reba W. Williams Foundation, Healy Purchase Fund B, and the Mary Smith Dorward Fund, gift of George S. Hellman, by exchange, 2000.27 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2000.27_SL3.jpg)
Christ Blessing
Nardo di Cione
European Art
Previously known only through a nineteenth-century engraving, this panel was discovered at a country auction in Dorset, England, in March 2000. Scholars then identified the panel as the missing pinnacle of Nardo di Cione’s altarpiece Madonna and Child with Saints Zenobius, John the Baptist, Reparata, and John the Evangelist, on view nearby. As the pinnacle to the larger panel, Christ Blessing would have been located directly above Madonna and Child with Saints.
MEDIUM
Tempera and tooled gold on panel
DATES
mid 14th century
DIMENSIONS
8 x 9 in. (20.3 x 22.9 cm)
mount (in dedicated vitrine. Display dims): 30 × 22 × 6 3/4 in. (76.2 × 55.9 × 17.1 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
European Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
2000.27
CREDIT LINE
Purchased with funds given by The Dave H. and Reba W. Williams Foundation, Healy Purchase Fund B, and the Mary Smith Dorward Fund, gift of George S. Hellman, by exchange
PROVENANCE
Prior to 1808, provenance not yet documented; 1808, purchased by Alexis-François Artaud de Montor of Paris, France; January 16-17, 1851, sold by Alexis-François Artaud de Montor at Hôtel des Ventes Immobilières, Paris, lot 23, as a work by Guido de Sienne; between 1851 and 2000, provenance not yet documented; by 2000, acquired by the Somerset family; March 9, 2000, purchased from the Somerset family at Henry Duke & Sons, Dorset, United Kingdom, lot 230a, by Simon C. Dickinson Ltd., London, United Kingdom; April 13, 2000, purchased from Simon C. Dickinson Ltd. by the Brooklyn Museum.
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Nardo di Cione (Italian, Florentine, active 1343–1356/1366). Christ Blessing, mid 14th century. Tempera and tooled gold on panel, 8 x 9 in. (20.3 x 22.9 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchased with funds given by The Dave H. and Reba W. Williams Foundation, Healy Purchase Fund B, and the Mary Smith Dorward Fund, gift of George S. Hellman, by exchange, 2000.27 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2000.27_PS1.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 2000.27_PS1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2006
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