National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: Madonna and Child with Two Angels
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Provenance

Palazzo Lazara, Padua. (Paul Drey, New York) by 1935 until at least 1938.[1] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., New York) by 1940.[2] Acquired 1944 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.[1]

[1]This work was exhibited at Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance, A.S.Drey Galleries, 2-20 March 1935, p.7n.1. It was also exhibited at Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculpture, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Jan.7-Feb.20 1938, as lent by Paul Drey.

[2]Kress files say the work was exhibited at Arts of the Middle Ages, Feb.17-March 24, 1940 as lent by Duveen Brothers Inc, New York.

[3]Provenance according to Ulrich Middeldorf, Complete Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Sculptures XIV-XIX Century, 1976, p. 12.

Exhibition History

1935
Exhibition of Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance, A.S. Drey Galleries, New York, 1935, no. 1, as by The Comacini.
1938
Eighteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures [cover title: Italian Sculpture 1250-1500], Detroit Institute of Arts, 1938, no. 6, repro., as North Italian.

Bibliography

1946
Frankfurter, Alfred M. Supplement to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1946: 18, repro., as North Italian
1976
Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 12.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 232, repro.
2008
Penny, Nicholas. "The Evolution of the Plinth, Pedestal, and Socle." In Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe. Nicholas Penny and Eike D. Schmidt, eds. Studies in the History of Art 70, Symposium Papers 47 (2008): 467, 468 fig. 12.

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