id: 97150 accession number: 1916.789 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.789 updated: 2025-03-14 11:09:56.876000 Madonna and Child with Tobias and the Angel Raphael, c. 1470. Francesco Botticini (Italian, c. 1446–1497). 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection, 1916.789 title: Madonna and Child with Tobias and the Angel Raphael title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1470 creation date earliest: 1465 creation date latest: 1475 current location: creditline: Holden Collection copyright: --- culture: Italy, 15th century technique: tempera on poplar panel department: Medieval Art collection: MED - Medieval Art type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Francesco Botticini (Italian, c. 1446–1497) - artist 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. --- measurements: 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Inaugural Exhibition opening date: 1916-06-06T05:00:00 Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916). title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 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). title: The Madonna in Art opening date: 1947-12-09T05:00:00 The Madonna in Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 9, 1947-February 9, 1948). title: Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage opening date: 1971-07-13T04:00:00 Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 13-September 19, 1971). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Boston Foreign Art Exhibition, 1883-4, no. 3', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'Early Italian Paintings lent by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October, 1912, no. 10', 'opening_date': '1912-10-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Inaugural Exhibition of The Cleveland Museum of Art, June 6- Sept. 20, 1916, no. 2', 'opening_date': '1916-06-06T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, 1936, cat. no 74, pl. X', 'opening_date': '1936-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage, CMA, 1971, no. 9', 'opening_date': '1971-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE James Jackson Jarves (1884); Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, Cleveland, Ohio, 1884 date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Berenson, Bernard. Florentine Pictures of the Renaissance. New York: G. P. Putnam's & Sons, 1909. p. 119. page number: url: https://archive.org/details/florentinepainte00bereuoft/page/118/mode/2up?view=theater Crowe, J. A. and G. B. Cavalcaselle. A History of Painting in Italy, Umbria, Florence and Siena from the Second to the Sixteenth Century / Vol. 4, Florentine Masters of the Fifteenth Century. London: John Murray, 1911. p. 182. page number: url: van Marle, Raimond. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. Vol. 11. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1923. p. 282, fig. 181. page number: url: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, with an Index of Places. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932. p. 107. page number: url: Berenson, Bernard. Pitture Italiane Del Rinascimento; Catalogo Dei Principali Artisti E Delle Loro Opere, Con Un Indice Dei Luoghi. Translated by Emilio Cecchi. Milano: U. Hoepli, 1936. p. 92. page number: url: Bellosi, Luciano. “Intorno ad Andrea del Castagno.” Paragone, Vol. 18 (1967): 3–18, fig. 19b. page number: url: Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972. p. 573. page number: url: Padoa Rizzo, Anna. “Per Francesco Botticini.” Antichità Viva 15, no. 5 (1976): 3–19. page number: url: Venturini, Lisa. Francesco Botticini. Firenze: EDIFIR, 1994. p. 107–8, cat. 22, fig. 25. page number: url: 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. page number: Mentioned: p. 11-12, cat. no. 2; Reproduced: p. 49, No. 2 url: https://archive.org/details/Holden_80856/page/n21 G. U. "The Holden Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 2 (1917): 19-34. page number: Mentioned: p. 20; reproduced: p. 33 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136067 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 400 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n74 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 80 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n104 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 80 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n104 Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 1. European Paintings before 1500. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Reproduced: fig. 20, p. 54 - 56; colorplate XII url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 91 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n111 Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952. page number: Reproduced: p. 53 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1952 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.789/1916.789_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.789/1916.789_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.789/1916.789_full.tif