Madonna with the Sleeping Child, mid 19th century

Not on View

Medium

terracotta

Dimensions

overall: 62 x 56.6 x 21.4 cm (24 7/16 x 22 5/16 x 8 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1961.9.96

Artists / Makers

Florentine 19th Century (sculptor)

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Provenance

Acquired in Italy between 1835-1840 by Charles Eliot Norton, Boston. Quincy Shaw, Boston. (Wildenstein & Co., New York). Acquired 1946 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.[1]

[1]Provenance according to Ulrich Middeldorf, Complete Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Sculptures XIV-XIX Century, 1976, p. 84.

Associated Names

Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Norton, Charles Eliot
Shaw, Quincy
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.

Exhibition History

1946: Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. A-161.

Bibliography

1949: Seymour, Charles. Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1949: 174-175, note 16, repro. 64-65.

1951: Hartt, Frederick. 'Review: Charles Seymour Jr., Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art." College Art Journal 10 (Wnter 1951): 205.

1951: Pope-Hennessy, John. 'Review: Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art by Charles Seymour." The Burlington Magazine 93, no. 576 (March 1951): 98.

1976: Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 84.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 89, repro.