National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Madonna and Child [obverse]
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Provenance

Private collection, Italy, c. 1920;[1] (Alessandro Contini, Rome [from 1930, Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi]); sold October 1927 to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955], New York;[2] transferred 1929 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] In his expertise dated 8 August 1934, commissioned from him by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation (copy in the NGA curatorial files), Frederick F. Mason Perkins states that he had seen the painting for the first time in an Italian private collection fifteen years earlier.

[2] The bill of sale for sculpture, maiolica, furniture, antique velvet, and several paintings, including a "Madonna and Child by Lippo Memmi...given to Donato Martini by some experts," is dated 5 October 1927 (copy in NGA curatorial files).

Exhibition History

Bibliography

1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 133-134, as by Lippo Memmi (?).
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 242, repro. 153, as by Lippo Memmi (?).
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 34, repro., as by Lippo Memmi (?).
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 7
1966
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 66-67, fig. 173-174.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 1, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 10, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:3-4, II: repro. pl. 1
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 18, repro.

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