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Communion of the Sick
Communion of the Sick
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Communion of the Sick

Artist (Italian, active 1356–died 1399)
Dateabout 1360
Mediumtempera on panel
Dimensionsframed: 64.1 × 56.7 × 4.1 cm (25 1/4 × 22 5/16 × 1 5/8 in.)
panel: 47.8 × 40.3 × 0.7 cm (18 13/16 × 15 7/8 × 1/4 in.)
with shims: 48.3 × 41.3 × 3.5 cm (19 × 16 1/4 × 1 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Margery Williams Adams
Object number2012.81
ProvenanceCollection of Albert Chalandon, La Grange Blanche, Lyon; Collection of Georges Chalandon, Paris; to dealer Captain R. Langton Douglas, England, about 1910–1920; to collector Frank Channing Smith, Jr., Worcester, MA, 1920; to his niece Margery William [Mrs. Gilbert] Adams, Charlotte, NC, 1952; on loan to the Worcester Art Museum, 2007; gifted to the Worcester Art Museum, 2012.
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