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Circle of Andrea Mantegna (Possibly Correggio)

Madonna and Child, c. 1505/1510

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 56.25 × 41 cm (22 1/8 × 16 1/8 in.)

framed: 98.11 × 85.41 × 15.88 cm (38 5/8 × 33 5/8 × 6 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1939.1.266

Artists / Makers

Italian 16th Century (painter)

Andrea Mantegna (related artist) Paduan, c. 1431 - 1506

Correggio (painter) Parmese, 1489/1494 - 1534

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Provenance

Probably John Smith-Barry [b. 1725], Marbury Hall, Northwich, Cheshire;[1] by inheritance to his son, James Hugh Smith-Barry [1748/1749-1801], Marbury Hall; by inheritance to his illegitimate son, John Smith-Barry [1793-1837], Marbury Hall; by inheritance to his son, James Hugh Smith-Barry [1816-1856], Marbury Hall; by inheritance to his son, Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry, 1st [and last] baron Barrymore [1843-1925], Marbury Hall; (his estate sale, Sotheby's, London, 21 June 1933, no. 89, as by Mantegna); acquired by Borenius for (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[2] sold March 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] The preface to the 1933 sale catalogue discusses the history of the collection, and the Smith-Barry family owners are detailed by the Getty Provenance Index; see also Burke's Irish Family Records, London, 1976: 76-77.

[2] The List of purchasers and prices realized, in the NGA Library copy of the sale catalogue, confirms that no. 89 was purchased by Dr. Borenius. According to an annotated copy of the sales catalogue in the Waterhouse collection at the Getty Research Institute, Borenius was buying for Duveen.

[3] The Duveen Brothers letter confirming the sale of twenty-four paintings, including NGA 1939.1.266, is dated 9 March 1937; the provenance is given as "Lord Barrymore Collection" (copy in NGA curatorial files; Box 474, Folder 5, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles). See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1329.

Associated Names

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Smith-Barry, 1st baron Barrymore, Arthur Hugh
Smith-Barry, James Hugh
Smith-Barry, James Hugh
Smith-Barry, John
Smith-Barry, John
Sotheby's, London

Exhibition History

1909: National Loan Exhibition, Grafton Galleries, London, 1909-1910, no. 88.

2008: Correggio e l'antico, Museo Galleria di Villa Borghese, Rome, 2008, no. 1, repro.

2008: Mantegna, 1431-1506, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2008-2009, no. 185, repro., as by Correggio.

2016: Correggio e Parmigianino: Arte a Parma nel Cinquecento, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2016, no. 1, repro

2022: Out of the Kress Vaults: Women in Sacred Renaissance Painting, Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT, 2022, no. 3.

Bibliography

1901: Kristeller, Paul. Andrea Mantegna. London and New York, 1901: 455, as by a Sixteenth-Century Veronese Artist.

1902: Kristeller, Paul. Andrea Mantegna. Berlin and Leipzig, 1902: as by a Sixteenth-Century Veronese Artist.

1910: Monod, François. “L’Exposition Nationale des maîtres anciens à Londres.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 52, no. 3 (1910): 57, 58-59, repro.

1930: Ricci, Corrado. Correggio. Rome, 1930: 21, 141, pl. 1, as by Correggio. English ed. London and New York, 1930: 23-24, 149, pl. 1, as by Correggio.

1937: Fiocco, Giuseppe. Mantegna. Milan, 1937: 78, 210, pl. 160, as by Andrea Mantegna.

1939: Richter, George M. “A Mantegna Problem.” Apollo 29, no. 170 (February 1939): 63, as by Andrea Mantegna.

1940: Suida, Wilhelm. "Die Sammlung Kress: New York." Pantheon 26 (1940): 276, as by Andrea Mantegna.

1941: Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 79, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.

1941: Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 121-122, no. 377, as by Andrea Mantegna.

1942: Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 145, as by Andrea Mantegna.

1943: Bodmer, Enrico. Il Correggio e gli Emiliani. Novara, 1943: viii.

1945: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 86, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.

1955: Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. Mantegna. Paintings Drawings Engravings. New York, 1955: 201-202, pl. 8, as by a Follower of Andrea Mantegna.

1956: Cirpriani, Renata. Tutta la pittura del Mantegna. Milan, 1956: 83, as Attributed to Andrea Mantegna, possibly Correggio.

1958: Longhi, Roberto. “Le fasi del Correggio giovine e l’esigenza del suo viaggio romano.” Paragone 9, no. 101 (1958): 35-36, as by Correggio.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 134, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.

1961: Bottari, Stefano. Correggio. Milan, 1961: 286, as by Correggio.

1962: Arb, Renée Marie. “The Young Correggio.” Ph.D. diss., Radclife College, 1962: 21-22.

1963: Cipriani, Renata. All the Paintings of Mantegna. 2 vols. New York, 1963: 2:104, pl. 184, as Attributed to Andrea Mantegna, possibly Correggio.

1964: Laskin, Myron. “The Early Work of Correggio.” Ph.D. diss., New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, 1964: 106, fig. 38a, as School of Andrea Mantegna.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 82, as by Andrea Mantegna.

1967: Garavaglia, Niny. L’opera completa del Mantegna. Milan, 1967: 121, no. 104, as doubtfully by Andrea Mantegna, more likely by Correggio. English ed. New York, 1967: 121, no. 104.

1968: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:242, as by Andrea Mantegna (?).

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 73, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.

1968: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 26, fig. 59.

1970: Quintavalle, Arturo Carlo. L’opera completa del Correggio. Milan, 1970: 89, no. 11, as by Correggio.

1972: Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 56, 118, 646, listed under both Correggio or Andrea Mantegna.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 214, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.

1976: Gould, Cecil. The Paintings of Correggio. London, 1976: 285.

1976: Shearman, John. “Review of Cecil Gould, Correggio (1976).” Times Literary Supplement (18 March 1977): 303.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:300-301; 2:pl. 214, as by Andrea Mantegna.

1981: Rowlands, Eliot W. “Review of Fern Rusk Shapley. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings 1979.” Apollo 144, no. 237 (November 1981): 353.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 248, repro.

1986: Lightbown, Ronald. Mantegna. Oxford, 1986: 480, cat. 174, pl. 204.

1996: Ekserdjian, David. "Correggio.” In Jane Turner, ed. The Dictionary of Art. 34 vols. New York and London, 1996: 7:885, as by Correggio.

1997: Ekserdjian, David. Correggio. New Haven and London, 1997: 27, fig. 26, as by Correggio.

2003: Boskovits, 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: 448-451, color repro.

2019: Ekserdjian, David. “L’eredità: Da Garofalo e Correggio a Rubens, Rembrandt e oltre.” In Sandrina Bandera, Howard Burns, and Vincenzo Farinella, eds. Andrea Mantegna: Riviere l’antico, costruire il modern. Exh. cat. Palazzo Madama, Turin, 2019: 260, as by Correggio.