Giovanni da Verrazzano, 17th century

Not on View

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall (with base): 88.6 x 68.9 x 33.6 cm (34 7/8 x 27 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1961.9.105

Artists / Makers

Italian 17th Century (artist)

Image Use

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Inscription

on front of base: GIO.DA / VER.

Provenance

The Verrazzano family, Florence; the Vai family, Florence. The Ridolfi family, Florence. G. Sonnino, New York. (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Florence and Rome). Mario Modestini, New York;[1] sold 1956 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.[2]

[1] See letter written by (then) NGA assistant curator J.Carter Brown dated 38 March 1967. In addition, a letter written by F.B.Adams Jr. states that Modestini, the Kress Foundation's conservator, sold the sculpture to the Foundation and was acting on the behalf of someone in Rome.

[2] Provenance according to Ulrich Middeldorf, Complete Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Sculptures XIV-XIX Century, London, 1976: 72.

Associated Names

Contini Bonacossi, Alessandro, Count
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Modestini, Mario
Ridolfi
Sonnino, G.
Vai
Verrazzano

Bibliography

1956: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 238-241, no. 97, repro.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 436, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 159.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 141, repro.

1976: Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 72.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 120, repro.

1995: Giannotti, Alessandra. "'Fisso nel punto, che m'avea vinto': Girolamo Ticciati, scultore 'sicuro' nella Firenze del settecento." Atti e memorie 60, n.s. 46 (1995): 103-122, fig. 2.

1999: Norman Herz, Katherine A. Holbrow and Shelley G. Sturman. "Marble Sculture in the National Gallery of Art: a Provenance Study." In Max Schvoerer, ed. Archéomatériaux: marbres et autres roches: ASMOSIA IV, Bordeaux, France 9-13 october 1995: actes de la IVème Conférence international de l’Association pour l’étude des marbres et autres roches utilizes dans le passé. Talence, 1999: 101-110.