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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of Pietà
Moretto da Brescia (artist)
Italian, 1498 - 1554
Pietà, 1520s
oil on panel
Overall: 175.8 x 98.5 cm (69 3/16 x 38 3/4 in.) framed: 206.1 x 129.1 x 7.6 cm (81 1/8 x 50 13/16 x 3 in.)
Samuel H. Kress Collection
1952.2.10
On View
From the Tour: Venice and the North
Object 2 of 6

1932Brockwell, Maurice W. Abridged Catalogye of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, in the Collection of Sir Herbert Cook. London, 1932: 184.
1951Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 96-97, repro.
1951Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 112, no. 46, repro.
1952Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Interpreting Masterpieces: Twenty-four Paintings from the Kress Collection." Art News Annual 1952:97, repro. 94
1959Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 197, repro.
1961Seymour, Charles. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 102, repro. pl. 94, color repro. pl. 95
1962Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Treasures from the National Gallery of Art, New York, 1962: 30, color repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 152, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 94
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:186, color repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 83, repro.
1968Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 91-92, fig. 220.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 246, repro.
1979Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:336-337, II:pl. 245
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 223, no. 276, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 285, repro.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 96, repro.
2004Danziger, Elon. "The Cook collection, its founder and its inheritors." The Burlington Magazine 146, no. 1216 (July 2004): 451.

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