Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Peter, Paul and George (?), Four Angels, and a Donor

This panel measures barely 25 centimetres a side, and the Museum of Fine Arts says plainly that it does not know what it was for. It was once painted on both faces, with a head of Christ on the back, yet it is much smaller than the painted trays Florentines gave as presents to new mothers, which were often painted on both sides too. On the front the Virgin sits enthroned with the Child among four angels, with Saint Peter, Saint Paul and a third saint usually named as George, though older catalogue entries added a question mark. At the lower left kneels a man in clerical dress, the donor who paid for the picture. Saint Peter is presenting him to the Christ Child, and several of the holy figures turn their eyes toward him. Fra Angelico painted it in the later 1440s. By 1869 it belonged to the French sculptor Henri de Triqueti, and in 1914 Mrs Walter Scott Fitz of Boston gave it to the museum.