Bernardo Daddi
The Assumption of the Virgin

Information provided by the Metropolitan Museum, New York:

Bernardo Daddi, Italian (Florence), active 1327–1348
Tempera on panel; 38 3/16 x 53 7/16 in. (108 x 136.8 cm)
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975 (1975.1.58)
This work is the upper half of an important altarpiece painted for a chapel in the cathedral of Prato, near Florence, which houses the highly venerated girdle, or belt, of the Virgin Mary. The lower section of the panel (now lost) showed Saint Thomas, whose upraised hands are visible at the bottom edge, and possibly the other apostles gathered around the tomb or the deathbed of the Virgin.
Provenance/Ownership History
Lombardi-Baldi, Florence, Italy (oral communication to M. Boskovitz by F. Zeri); Harold Parsons, Rome, Italy, 1954 (note on a photograph in the Harvard Library for Renaissance Studies, Villa I Tatti, Florence, Italy); Carlo and Marcello Sestieri, Rome, Italy. Acquired by Robert Lehman, New York, New York, before 1957.