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Madonna of Humility

Place of OriginItaly
Dateabout 1375-1423/24
Dimensions54 1/2 × 24 1/2 × 3 3/4 in. (138.4 × 62.2 × 9.5 cm)
MediumTempera on wood panel
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey
Object number
1945.30
On View
Toledo Museum of Art (2445 Monroe Street), Gallery, 19
Published ReferencesWaagen, G., Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854, III, p. 436 (painting probably listed as Taddeo di Bartolo).

Siren, O., Don Lorenzo Monaco, Strasbourg, 1905, p. 170.

Crowe, J. A., and G. B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in Italy: Umbria, Florence and Siena, (ed. E. Hutton), London, 1908, I, pp. 449-50, no. 4; (ed. L. Douglas, 1911-26, II, p. 302, h.).

Berenson, B., The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, New York, 1909, p. 154.

Borenius, T., A Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House, London, 1913, I, no. 14.

van Marle, R., The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, The Hague, 1927, IX, p. 172, fig. 116.

Toesca, P., Florentine Painting of the Trecento, New York (1929), p. 57, pl. 114.

Berenson, B., Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 301.

(M.W. Brockwell), Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, London, 1932, p. 25, no. 14.

Pudelko, G., "The Stylistic Development of Lorenzo Monaco - II," Burlington Magazine, LXXIV, Feb. 1939, p. 76, n. 2.

Godwin, Blake-More, "Cook Collection," Art Digest, Dec. 15, 1944, p. 8, p. 30.

Godwin, Blake-More, "Pearls of English Collections now in America," Art News, vol. 43, Dec. 15-31, 1944, pp. 16, 17, 24.

"Masterpieces of Painting, from the Cook Collection, on Exhibition at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, U.S.A.," Illustrated London News, March 3, 1945, pp. 248-249, repr. p. 248.

"News of Museums," Museums Journal, March 1945, vol. 44, no. 12, pp. 199-200.

"Cook Collection Shown in Toledo," Antiques, June 1945, p. 346.

"Cook Collection," Studio, July 1945, p. 25.

"Cook Collection Exhibited in Toledo," Connoisseur, Sept. 1945, pp. 37-38.

"Madonna and Child Acquired by Toledo," Art News, vol. 46, July 1947, repr. (col.) p. 33.

Faison, S. Laner, Jr., "From Lorenzo Monaco to Mattia Preti," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, repr. (col.) pl. VII, p. 445.

The Plaskon Magazine, no. 7, Oct. 1950, repr. (col.) p. 14.

The Texas Outlook, vol. 36, no. 12, Dec. 1952, repr. (col.) on cover.

Godwin, Molly Ohl, "Capolavori Italiani al Toledo Museum of Art," Le Vie del Mondo, vol. 14, 1952, pp. 1154-1155, repr. p. 1148.

Godwin, Molly Ohl, "Toledo Museum of Art: Post-war Additions," Connoisseur, vol. 136, no. 548, Oct. 1955, pp. 133-140.

Berenson, B., Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, London, 1963, I, p. 121.

Frederikson, B., and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections, Cambridge (MA), 1972, pp. 111, 315, 355, 641.

Boskovits, M., Pittura fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, Florence, 1975, p. 354.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, pp. 99-100, pl. 3.

A Dealer's Record: Agnew's 1967-81, London, 1981, p. 12, repr. (col.) p. 21.

Eisenberg, Marvin, Lorenzo Monaco, Princeton, 1989, pp. 72, no. 168, 88, 169-70, figs. 149, 150 (as Madonna of Humility).

Painting and Illumination in Early Renaissance Florence 1300-1450, New York, 1994, p. 305, 306, fig. 121.

Stehlke, Carl Brandon, Italian Paintings 1250-1450 in the John G. Johnson Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2004, p. 229-30, fig. 40.4.

Collier, Carly, "A Forgotten Collector of Early Italian Art: Horatio Walpole, 3rd Earl of Oxford," Burlington Magazine, v. 153, no. 1301, Aug. 2011, p. 516, fig. 5 (col.) p. 517.

Exhibition HistoryLondon, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Winter Exhibition, 1902, no. 11.

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Gothic Art in Europe, ca. 1200-ca. 1500, 1936, no. 32, pl. III (as Lorenzo Monaco).

Toledo Museum of Art, Masterpieces from the Cook Collection of Richmond, England, 1944, no. 14, repr.

The Holy Family
Lorenzo di Ottavio Costa
about 1510
Madonna and Child with Saint John
Francesco Pesellino
about 1455
The Adoration of the Child
Italian
late 15th century
The Baptism of Christ
Spiridon Chrysoloras
about 1550
The Crucifixion
Andrea di Bartolo
after 1400
The Crucifixion
Jacobello del Fiore
about 1395-1400

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