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Studio of Fra Angelico (c.1395/1400 - 1455)

The Virgin and Child with Angels and a Dominican Saint; St Peter (left); St Paul (right)

A77; tempera and gilding on panel; 41 x 26.8 cm (arched); 44.9 x 16.3 (left wing); 44.8 x 15.2 (right wing) cm

Inscribed on the scroll: DISCITE AME QUIA MITIS SUM SUM(Matthew 11:29)

Presented by William Thomas Horner Fox-Strangways , later 4th Earl of Ilchester, 1850; WA1850.5

Lloyd 1977, pp. 5-6; Bonsanti 1998, no. 87

This portable folding triptych was made for private devotion. The side panels have been cut down and may have belonged to a different small altar-piece so that the triptych was assembled, or altered, at a later date. The artist was close to Benozzo Gozzoli. St Peter holds his attribute of a key and St Paul a sword, the instrument of his martyrdom. The saintly friar is probably St Dominic.

Information derived from the The Ashmolean Museum index.php/complete Illustrated Catalogue of Paintings.