The Holy Family with Angels, c. 1545/1550

West Building, Main Floor - Gallery 20

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

overall: 81.3 x 61.6 cm (32 x 24 1/4 in.)

framed: 106 x 85.4 x 12.7 cm (41 3/4 x 33 5/8 x 5 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1943.4.28

Artists / Makers

Domenico Beccafumi (artist) Sienese, c. 1485 - 1551

Image Use

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Provenance

Enrico Marinucci, Rome;[1] probably sold 1936/1937 to (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence and Rome); sold 1939 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1943 to NGA.

[1] See letter dated 1 October 1936 from an Enrico Cappiello, offering pictures on behalf of Marinucci to the director of the Wiliam Rockhill Nelson Gallery (Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, curatorial file for Tanzio da Varallo, 1944.2, copy NGA curatorial records). It is likely that those paintings came from the collection of Marinucci's uncle, Cardinal Pietro Gasparri [1852-1934].

[2] See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2195.

Associated Names

Contini Bonacossi, Alessandro, Count
Gasparri, Pietro Cardinal
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Marinucci, Enrico

Bibliography

1941: Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 18, no. 529.

1942: Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 250, repro. 66.

1945: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 122, repro.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 89, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 11.

1968: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:38.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 4, repro.

1972: Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 21, 646.

1973: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 4, fig. 3.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 18, repro.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:32-33; 2:pl. 20.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 187, no. 213, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 38, repro.

1990: Bagnoli, Alessandro, Roberto Bartalani, and Michele Maccherini, eds. Domenico Beccafumi e il suo tempo. Exh. cat. Chiesa di Sant’Agostino, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Duomo, Oratorio di San Bernardino, Spedale di Santa Maria della Scala, and Palazzo Bindi Sergardi, Siena, 1990: 210, fig. 1.

1996: Bartalani, Roberto. Le occasioni del Sodoma. Dalla Milano di Leonardo alla Roma di Raffaello. Rome, 1996: 118.