Maestà: Gaddi’s Triptych Reunited December 11, 2015 ‐ March 20, 2016 Press Image Sheet Digital composite of: Taddeo Gaddi, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Ten Saints: Maestà with the inner shutters (sportelli) from a triptych: Annunciation and Nativity; Crucifixion, ca. 1330–34 Tempera, gesso, gold leaf and traces of silver on panel New‐York Historical Society, Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan; The Alana Collection. Taddeo Gaddi (active ca. 1320s–1366) Madonna and Child Enthroned with Ten Saints: Maestà, ca. 1330–34 Tempera, gesso, gold leaf, and traces of silver on panel, 13 13/16 x 9 15/16 in. (35.1 x 25.4 cm) Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan. Taddeo Gaddi (active ca. 1320s–1366) Shutters (sportelli) from a triptych in four panels (once two): Annunciation and Nativity; Crucifixion; St. Catherine of Alexandria; St. Christopher, ca. 1330–34 Tempera and gold leaf on panel with possible touches of silver, ca. 15 9/16 x 5 1/2 in. (39.5 x 13.9 cm); 15 9/16 x 5 11/16 in. (39.5 x 14.4 cm) The Alana Collection. Follower of Duccio di Buoninsegna (1255–1319) The Crucifixion, ca. 1315 Tempera, gesso, and gold leaf on panel, 16 x 11 1/2 in. (40.6 x 29.2 cm) Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan. Giovanni di Ser Giovanni (called Lo Scheggia, 1407–1486) The Triumph of Julius Caesar, ca. 1445–65 Tempera, gesso, and gold leaf on panel with traces of silver, 16 x 60 1/2 in. (40.6 x 153.7 cm) Gift of Thomas Jefferson Bryan. Thomas Sully (1783–1872) Thomas Jefferson Bryan (1800–1870), 1831 Oil on panel, 20 x 16 3/8 in. (50.8 x 41.6 cm) The Watson Fund. Alexis‐François Artaud de Montor (1772–1849) Peintres primitifs, collection de tableaux rapportée d'Italie (Paris: Challamel, 1843). 2
Thomas Jefferson Bryan (1800–1870) Catalogue of the Bryan Gallery of Christian Art, from the Earliest Masters to the Present Time (New York: G. F. Nesbitt and Co., 1852). Thomas Jefferson Bryan (1800–1870) Companion to the Bryan Gallery of Christian Art, ed. Richard Grant White (New York: Baker, Godwin & Co., 1853). 3