Professor Luigi Grassi

Italian, 1858 - 1937

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Florentine 15th Century, Cassone Carved and Gilded, fourth quarter 15th century, gilded walnut, Widener Collection, 1942.9.390

Cassone Carved and Gilded

Florentine 15th Century · fourth quarter 15th century · gilded walnut ·  Accession ID  1942.9.390

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Walnut Bench with Balustraded Back

Sienese 16th Century · 16th century · carved, gilded, and polychromed walnut and oak ·  Accession ID  1942.9.385

Sienese 16th Century, Walnut Bench with Balustraded Back, 16th century, carved, gilded, and polychromed walnut and oak, Widener Collection, 1942.9.386

Walnut Bench with Balustraded Back

Sienese 16th Century · 16th century · carved, gilded, and polychromed walnut and oak ·  Accession ID  1942.9.386

Tuscan 15th Century, Madonna and Child, c. 1430, painted and gilded terracotta, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1961.9.103

Madonna and Child

Tuscan 15th Century · c. 1430 · painted and gilded terracotta ·  Accession ID  1961.9.103

Italian 16th Century, Walnut Savonarola Chair with Incised Ornament, 16th century, beech, with oak or chestnut feet, Widener Collection, 1942.9.391

Walnut Savonarola Chair with Incised Ornament

Italian 16th Century · 16th century · beech, with oak or chestnut feet ·  Accession ID  1942.9.391

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Dantesca Chair with Inlay Work

Italian 15th Century · 15th century · walnut, maple inlay, and upholstery ·  Accession ID  1942.9.388

A young, pale-skinned woman with reddish-blond hair sits with a nearly nude, chubby toddler standing in her lap in this vertical painting. She looks down at him, her body and face angled to our left. Thin lines creating a gold halo fan out from the back of her head. An ivory-white scarf wraps around her head and trails down the back of her neck where it is tucked into a dark, teal-blue cloak covering her shoulders and draping across her lap. Under the robe, she wears a loose, cherry-red gown with vertical pleats over her chest. The baby, also with pale skin, reddish blond hair, and a delicate gold halo, looks up at her face with light brown eyes. He stands on the woman’s right thigh, to our left. One of the woman's hands wraps around his body and supports his legs, while she props up his chest with her other. A length of pale gray fabric wraps over one shoulder and around his stomach. The two are situated in front of a column and pillar supporting a horizontal lintel overhead. The view beyond is of a blue sky over a golden field with dark green conical cypress trees in the distance.
Sandro Botticelli, Madonna and Child, c. 1470, tempera on panel, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.21

Madonna and Child

Sandro Botticelli · c. 1470 · tempera on panel ·  Accession ID  1937.1.21

Lorenzo Pasinelli, Study for the Sibyl of the Casa Budrioli, 1677/1678, red chalk on laid paper, William B. O'Neal Fund, 2021.38.2.a

Study for the Sibyl of the Casa Budrioli

Lorenzo Pasinelli · 1677/1678 · red chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2021.38.2.a

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Studies of the Faces and the Figure of a Soldier

Lorenzo Pasinelli · 1677/1678 · pen and brown and black ink and red chalk ·  Accession ID  2021.38.2.b

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Dantesca Chair with Inlay Work

Italian 15th Century · 15th century · walnut, maple inlay, and upholstery ·  Accession ID  1942.9.389

Bibliography

1970

  • Towner, Wesley. The Elegant Auctioneers. Completed by Stephan Varble. New York, 1970: 381, 422-423.

2017

  • Edgar Peters Bowron, ed/ Buying Baroque : Italian seventeenth-century paintings come to America. , University Park, Pennsylvania : The Frick Collection, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017.