Jacopo della Quercia (artist) Italian, 1371/1374 - 1438 Madonna of Humility, c. 1400 marble, traces of gilding overall: 58.4 x 48.8 x 28.3 cm (23 x 19 3/16 x 11 1/8 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1960.5.2 On View

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Provenance

Prince Ercolani, Bologna. Art market, Vienna. (Jacques Seligmann, Paris); sold 1920 to Henry Goldman [1857-1937], New York;[1] Goldman family, until at least 1938.[2] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1960 to NGA.

[1] According to Germain Seligman, Merchants of Art: 1880-1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting, New York, 1961, pl. 27.

[2] Lent from Goldman family to exhibition in Detroit in 1938.

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• Art Market, Vienna, Austria
• Duveen Brothers, Inc.
• Ercolani, Prince
• Goldman, Henry
• Kress Foundation, Samuel H. (Kress number K1384)
• Seligmann & Cie., Jacques

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