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Madonna Adoring the Child
(Renaissance Europe )
Barbara Longhi was an active member of the workshop of her father, Luca Londhi, in Ravenna, Italy, the city where she seems to have spent her entire life. Very little is known of Barbara Longhi outside a small number of delicate images of the Madonna and Child, a subject that was not only popular with clients but for which, in a conservative environment, she as a woman artist could readily compete.
Provenance
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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [1881 catalogue: no. 192; 1897 catalogue: no. 247, as Luca Longhi]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 9/15/1941 | Treatment | stabilized |
| 5/7/1943 | Treatment | stabilized |
| 9/24/1963 | Treatment | loss compensation; coated |
| 12/28/1967 | Treatment | stabilized; loss compensation |
Geographies
Italy, Romagna (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 16 11/16 × W: 13 9/16 in. (42.4 × 34.5 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters with the Massarenti Collection, 1902
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.1068