The Virgin and Child (Alternate: The Virgin suckling the Christ Child)

Item

Creator
The Osma Master (Spanish, active circa 1500)
Title
The Virgin and Child
(Alternate: The Virgin suckling the Christ Child)
Description
Oil on panel
29 x 18 ½ in. (c. 73.6 x 46.9 cm)
Provenance
The Episcopal Palace, Palencia, Spain. José Gudiol (1904-1985), Barcelona. Jose A. Weissberger (c.1880-1954), New York and Madrid, by March 1953, sold to; [Newhouse Galleries, New York, and Frederick Mont (Mondschein) (1894-1994), New York, sold December 1954 to]; Arthur William Sidney Herrington (1891-1970) and Nell C. Herrington (1891-1966), Indianapolis, Indiana, by inheritance to their son; Arthur Clarke Herrington (1931-2018), Maryland, bequest 2018 to; Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.[1]
[1] Refer to the curatorial/object file.
Exhibitions
1955 – London, Canada, University of Western Canada, McIntosh Memorial Gallery, Loan Exhibition 15th-16th-17th-18th-Century Spanish Masters, 19 Feb. – 19 Mar. 1955, illus. pl. 3.

1964 – Champaign, IL, Krannert Art Museum, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois, The Collection of Mr. and Mrs. A.W.S. Herrington of Indianapolis, Indiana, European and American Paintings and Graphic Art; European, American, and Oriental Decorative Arts, 27 September – 25 October 1964, no. 5, illus.

1968 – Indianapolis, IN, Art Association of Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art, The Nell Clarke Herrington Memorial Exhibition, 7-28 April 1968, Bulletin/Catalogue, Spring 1968, p. 41, illus.

1968 – Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Civic and Cultural Center, Selections from the Herrington Collection, Inaugural Exhibition of the Arts Museum, 3-19 May 1968, no. 10, illus.
References
‘Exhibition of Old Masterpieces From Spain First in Canada’, The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 30 December 1954, p.13, illus.
Maroto, P. Silva. “Obras para la devoción privada en Castilla a fines del siglo XV. El Maestro de Osma". In Sapientia Libertas: Escritos en Homenaje al Profesor: Alfonso E. Pérez Sánchez. Edited by María Condor Orduña. Madrid; Seville: Museo Nacional del Prado, 2007, fig. 4, p. 143.
The Getty Research Institute Photo Study Collection, Los Angeles, CA: 76.P.63, Renaissance to Modern, ND804 Box 83: SPANISH, Master of: G-Q. Virgin Suckling the Christ Child. Photo (Frederick Mont and Newhouse).
Status
Under research