The Four Crowned Martyrs [before Diocletian?]
c. 1390
Artist
- Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, Italian
- Born: Unknown
- Active Years: 1368-1414
Object
painting
Medium
Tempera paint on panel
Accession Number
1961.156
Credit Line
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Niccolò di Pietro Gerini, The Four Crowned Martyrs [before Diocletian?], about 1390. Tempera paint on panel; 24 ¼ × 17 ¼ in. (61.6 × 43.8 cm). Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1961.156
Dimensions
image height: 24 1/4 in, 61.5950 cm; image width: 17 1/4 in, 43.8150 cm; frame height: 31.25 in, 79.3750 cm; frame width: 24 in, 60.9600 cm; frame depth: 2.5 in, 6.3500 cm
Department
European and American Art Before 1900
Collection
European Painting and Sculpture before 1900
Known Provenance
(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878 1955] Rome Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863 1955] on 2 October 1928 as Spinello Aretino; gift to the National Gallery of Art in 1939 as Niccolo di Pietro Gerini; deaccessioned in 1952 and returned to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation; gift to Denver Art Museum in 1954, no. 1961.156.
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