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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of The Adoration of the Magi
Sandro Botticelli (painter)
Italian, 1446 - 1510
The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1478/1482
tempera and oil on panel
painted surface: 68 x 102 cm (26 3/4 x 40 3/16 in.) overall size: 70 x 104.2 cm (27 9/16 x 41 in.) framed: 98.4 x 132.1 x 8.3 cm (38 3/4 x 52 x 3 1/4 in.)
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
1937.1.22
From the Tour: Patrons and Artists in Late 15th-Century Florence
Object 2 of 8
1909Wrangell, Le baron Nicolas. Les Chefs-d'oeuvre de la galerie de tableaux de l'Hermitage Impérial à St-Pétersbourg. London, 1909:repro. 3
1941"World Masterpieces Lend Supreme Distinction to National Gallery of Art." Washington Star. 16 March 1941:F6
1941Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 29.
1942Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 239, repro. 76.
1944Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 40, color repro.
1949Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 24, repro.
1951Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 46-48, repro.
1956Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 18, color repro.
1957Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 31
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.): 30, 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): 6, repro.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 82, repro.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 17
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:48, color repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 10, repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 36, repro.
1978Olson, Roberta J.M. "Botticelli's Horsetamer: A Quotation from Antiquity which Reaffirms a Roman Date for the Washington Adoration." Studies in the History of Art vol. 8 (1978): 6-21, repro.
1979Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:81-83, II:pl. 53, 53A
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 27, pl. 10, color repro.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 94, no. 55, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 56, repro.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 22, repro.
1997Neverov, Oleg, and Mikhail Piotrovsky. The Hermitage: Essays on the History of the Collection, St. Petersburg, 1997: 164-165, repro.
2003Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 161-166, color repro.

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