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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 |
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Provenance
Probably originally commissioned for either the Pulci-Beraldi or Peruzzi chapel, Santa Croce, Florence. Edouard de Max [1869-1924], Paris;[1] sold 1917/1918 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold by 1920 to Henry Goldman [1857-1937], New York, until at least 1930;[2] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] Born Eduard-Alexandru Max in Iasi, Moldova, Romania, he became known as Edouard de Max during his career as a film actor in France. According to a 1949 note from Duveen's Paris representative, Edward Fowles (in NGA curatorial files, and later published in his Memories of Duveen Brothers, London, 1976: 104), Max told Fowles he had inherited the painting from a great-aunt, to whom it had been given by a Pope.
[2] Goldman lent the painting to exhibitions in 1920, 1924, and 1930.
Associated Names
- Duveen Brothers, Inc.
- Goldman, Henry
- Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
- Max, Edouard de
- Santa Croce, Florence
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