A Miracle of Saint Donatus of Arezzo
Artistattributed to
Leonardo da Vinci
(Italian, 1452–1519)
Artistand
Lorenzo di Credi
(Florentine, about 1456–1536)
Date1475–1479
Mediumoil on panel
Dimensions16.6 x 33.5 cm (6 9/16 x 13 3/16 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineTheodore T. and Mary G. Ellis Collection
Object number1940.29
Label TextToward the end of the fifteenth century, Lorenzo di Credi began his career in Florence, which had become the leading center of painting in Italy. Among those working with him in the workshop of the Florentine artist Verrocchio was Leonardo da Vinci, to whom is attributed an Annunciation (now at the Louvre, Paris) similar in size to Lorenzo's painting.
These panels once formed part of a predella, or lower portion of an altarpiece, made for the cathedral of Pistoia in central Italy. The subject of the present panel is Saint Donato, who proved the innocence of a tax collector falsely accused of theft. The saint is shown assisting the man in locating the money that his deceased wife had hidden for safekeeping. Saint Donato appears also in the main panel of the Pistoia altarpiece, which was commissioned in memory of Bishop Donato de'Medici.Provenance(March 13, 1868, sale of the M. F. de Villars collection, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, catalog no. 63). Paul Antonini, Paris; (by 1933, Vitale Bloch [1900-1975], Berlin); (R. Langton Douglas [1864-1951], London); April 1933, Theodore T. Ellis [1867-1934], Worcester, MA; bequeathed to his widow, Mary G. Ellis [d. 1940]; 1940, by bequest to the Worcester Art Museum.On View
On viewCurrent Location
- Exhibition Location Gallery 208
