Altarpiece of the Madonna and Child with Saints, in Its Architectural Setting, 1528/1537

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink on laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 23.6 x 16.1 cm (9 5/16 x 6 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Circle of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1988.34.1

Artists / Makers

Perino del Vaga (artist) Italian, 1501 - 1547

Image Use

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Inscription

[on recto are artist's notations regarding altarpiece measurements]; lower left verso in graphite: No 61

Provenance

August Artaria, Vienna (1807-1893)(Lugt 33). Rudolf Philip Goldschmidt [c. 1840-1914], Berlin. (Lugt 2926). Eva Dencker-Winkler, by 1988; NGA purchase in 1988.

Associated Names

Artaria, August
Dencker, Eva S.
Goldschmidt, Rudolf Philip

Exhibition History

1988: Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

2001: "Perino del Vaga: tra Raffaello e Michelangelo" ("Perino del Vaga: between Raphael and Michelangelo"), Centro Internazionale d'Arte e di Cultura di Palazzo Te, Mantua, 2001, no. 43.

2020: Raphael and His Circle: Prints and Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2020, no cat.

Bibliography

1992: Wolk-Simon, Linda. "The Pala Doria and Andrea Doria's Mortuary Chapel: A Newly Discovered Project by Perino del Vaga." Artibus et Historiae, no. 26, 1992, pp. 163-175.

1997: sale cat., Christie's, New York, 30 January 1997, p. 18, under no. 7, reproduced.

1998: Parma, Elena. "Un progetto di Perino del Vaga per la pala dell'altar maggiore di S. Maria degli Angeli di Apricale." In Gedenkschrift für Richard Harprath. Ed. by Wolfgang Liegenwein and Anchise Tempestini. Munich, 1998: 339, 344, note 4, fig. 6.

1999: La pittura in Liguria:Il Cinquecento. Banca Carige, Genova, 1999: 21, fig. 10.