Vittorio Crivelli Italian (active 1481-1502) Saint Peter, 15th century Oil on panel Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. European Art Location:  Exhibit, Gallery 168 View Location Dimensions:  H: 24 1/2 in, W: 12 in, FH: 27 in, FW: 14 3/4 in Object ID: 71.633 Click for more information: Description Exhibitions Publications Provenance Click to comment on this piece or add to our "Visitor Favorites" Description Oil on panel painting. close Exhibitions "Behind the Seen: The Chrysler's Hidden Museum," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., Large Changing Gallery, October 21, 2005 - February 19, 2006. close Publications Stefano Papetti et at., VITTORE CRIVELLI E LA PITTURA DEL SUO TEMPO NEL FERMANO, (Milano: Federico Motta Editore S.P.A., 1997), 136, 224, 253, 258. close Provenance Victoria and Albert Museum collection (as part of larger Madonna and Child altarpiece), London, England, dates unknown Arthur Hauth, Düsseldorf, Germany, dates unknown Charles Brinsley Marlay (d. 1912), London, England, ?-1912 Gustav Oberlaender (1867-1936), Go-Al-Do Manor, Reading, PA, and NY, ?-1936 Mrs. Harold M. Leinbach (Oberlaender's daughter), New York, NY, 1936-1939 Auctioned, Oberlaender estate sale, Parke-Bernet, NY (nos. 219-220) - at this point parts of the altarpiece broken up/sold separately, May 25-26, 1939 Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York, NY, dates unknown Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. to Chrysler Museum of Art, 1971. close Vittore Crivelli Italian (active 1481-1502) Saint Peter and Saint Jerome Oil on panel Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 71.633-.634 Carlo Crivelli's finely detailed and sharply delineated Gothic style (his Saint Anthony of Paduais on view in the same gallery) had considerable influence on painters working in the Marches in central Italy. Chief among them was his younger brother Vittore, who readily assumed Carlo's style. Vittore's small devotional images of Saint Peter (wearing the papal triple tiara and holding the keys to the kingdom of heaven) and Saint Jerome (the book he holds symbolizing his authorship of the Latin Bible) belonged to a larger, multi-panel altarpiece of the Virgin and Child by Vittore that was pulled apart in the early 20th century and is now divided among several collections (see illustration on gallery label). The fate of this dismembered polyptych is not unusual and should remind us that many early European paintings on view in museums today are actually fragments of originally larger and richer artistic programs.   museum@chrysler.org Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia All Rights Reserved ©2006