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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of Madonna and Child
Giotto (artist)
Italian, probably 1266 - 1337
Madonna and Child, probably 1320/1330
tempera on panel
Overall: 85.5 x 62 cm (33 11/16 x 24 7/16 in.) framed: 128.3 x 72.1 x 5.1 cm (50 1/2 x 28 3/8 x 2 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1939.1.256
From the Tour: Byzantine Art and Painting in Italy during the 1200s and 1300s
Object 6 of 8
1941Duveen 1941, fig. 11.
1941Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 80, pl. VI.
1942Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 115.
1944Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 18, color repro.
1944Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 13, repro.
1945Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 11, repro.
1951Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 18-20, repro.
1956Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 14, color repro.
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 18, repro.
1959Shapley, Fern Rusk. Early Italian Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number Three in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 16, color repro.
1960The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 19.
1961Seymour, Charles. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 4-6, color repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 68, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 58
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:8, color repro.
1966Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 20-22, fig. 41-42.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 51, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 154, repro.
1979Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:219-221, II:pl. 149
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 19, pl. 2, color repro.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 71, no. 10, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 177, repro.
1991"The National Gallery of Art, Washington: fifty years." Apollo 133, no. 349 (March 1991):156, repro.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 12, repro.

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