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Duccio di Buoninsegna (artist) Italian, c. 1255 - 1318 The Nativity with the Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel, 1308/1311 tempera on single panel overall size: 43.8 x 77.5 cm (17 1/4 x 30 1/2 in.) middle section: 43.8 x 44.4 cm (17 1/4 x 17 1/2 in.) left section: 43.8 x 16.5 cm (17 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.) right section: 43.8 x 16.5 cm (17 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.) Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.8 |
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Provenance
Commissioned, as part of the Maestà for the Duomo, Siena, and installed on the high altar 9 June 1311, until sometime before 1878;[1] private collection, Florence; acquired 1884 by the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin;[2] exchanged 1937 for Hans Holbein's Man with a Lute through (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[3] purchased 26 April 1937 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[4] gift 1937 to NGA.
[1] Maestà removed from high altar and partially dismantled 1506; transferred to S. Ansano, Castelvecchio, 1771, and cut into sections; major panels in Duomo 1795, but several small panels missing; panels remaining in 1878 transferred to Museo del Duomo.
[2] Inv. no. 1062A.
[3] See Miklós Boskovits and Erich Schleier, Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Katalog der Gemälde, Frühe Italienische Malerei, Berlin, 1988: VII-VIII (Forward by Henning Bock), and Helmut Ruhemann, The Cleaning of Paintings, London, 1968: 41.
[4] Mellon/Mellon Trust purchase date and/or date deeded to Mellon Trust is according to Mellon collection files in NGA curatorial records and David Finley's notebook (donated to the National Gallery of Art in 1977, now in the Gallery Archives).
Associated Names
- Duomo, Siena
- Duveen Brothers, Inc.
- Kaiser Friedrich Museum
- Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
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