National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Madonna and Child with Saint Peter and Saint Stephen [middle panel]
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  • Provenance
  • Exhibition History
  • Bibliography

Overview

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Inscription

upper center on Christ's book: EGO SUM LUX MUNDI ET VIA VERITAS ET VITA (I am the light of the world and the way, the truth and the life), a conflation of John 8:12 and 14:6

Marks and Labels

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Provenance

Private collection, London, by 1924.[1] Samuel L. Fuller [c. 1876-1963], New York;[2] gift 1950 to NGA.

[1] See F. Mason Perkins, “Su alcune pitture di Martino di Bartolomeo,” Rassegna d’Arte Senese 18 (1924): 5-12. The author does not divulge the name of the collector, but since he mentions that it was the collector himself who had suggested the attribution to Martino di Bartolomeo, the owner was undoubtedly a connoisseur and probably an amateur dealer such as Robert Langton Douglas or Edward Hutton, both active in London. A note from Ellis Waterhouse, written 22 July 1980, and recorded in NGA curatorial files, says, “I have old Langton Douglas photographs of these.”

[2] See Fern Rusk Shapley, Catalogue of the Italian Paintings, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 1:303.

Exhibition History

1968
Loan to display with permanent collection, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida, 1968-1976 (middle panel of the triptych only).

Bibliography

1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 83
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 74, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 216, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:302-303, II:pl. 216
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 251, repro. 230 (incorrectly identified as repro. of 1937.1.11, Lippo Memmi, Madonna and Child).

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