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Bacchiacca

The Gathering of Manna, 1540/1555

Not on View

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

overall: 111.8 x 95.3 cm (44 x 37 1/2 in.)

framed: 141 x 123.2 x 8.3 cm (55 1/2 x 48 1/2 x 3 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1952.5.4

Artists / Makers

Bacchiacca (artist) Florentine, 1494 - 1557

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Provenance

Stefano Bardini [1836-1922], Florence, by 1899; (Bardini sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 5 June 1899, no. 494, bought in); (Bardini sale, American Art Association, New York, 25 April 1918, no. 468);[1] purchased by H.L. Kaufman; (Pinakos, Inc. [Rudolf Heinemann], New York); on joint account 1942 with (Frederick Mont), (Victor D. Spark, New York) and (M. Knoedler & Co, London, New York and Paris, France);[2] sold 6 August 1943 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1952 to NGA.

[1] This information comes from the M. Knoedler & Co. précis in NGA curatorial files.

[2] Victor D. Spark papers, Archives of American Art, Box 3 (copy in NGA curatorial files). See also M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Stockbook no. 8, p. 218 (copy in NGA curatorial files).

[3] See The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2183.

Associated Names

American Art Association
Bardini, Stefano
Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
Heinemann, Rudolf J.
Kaufman, H.L.
Knoedler & Company, M.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Mont, Inc., Frederick
Spark, Victor D.

Exhibition History

1944: Roosevelt House, Hunter College, New York, 1944.

1946: Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. 791.

Bibliography

1896: Berenson, Bernard. The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance: with an index to their works. New York, 1896: 101.

1907: Salvini, Roberto. “Ubertini, Francesco.” In Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, eds. Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart. 37 vols. Leipzig, 1907-1950: 33 (1939):522.

1909: Berenson, Bernard. The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, 3rd ed. London, 1909: 102.

1923: Schubring, Paul. Cassoni. 2 vols. Leipzig, 1923: 1:406, no. 826.

1925: Tinti, Mario. Il Bachiacca. Florence, [1925?]: pl. 18.

1926: McComb, Arthur. “Francesco Ubertini (Bacchiacca).” The Art Bulletin 3 (1926): 154.

1938: Berenson, Bernard. The Drawings of the Florentine Painters. 3 vols. Chicago, 1938: 1:297-298.

1945: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 119, repro.

1946: Douglas, Robert Langton. "Recent Additions to the Kress Collection." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 88 (1946): 82.

1946: Frankfurter, Alfred M. Supplement to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1946: 46, repro.

1947: Friedmann, Herbert. “Bacchiacca’s Gathering of Manna in the National Gallery.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 32 (1947): 151-158.

1956: Mühlberger, Richard. The Bible in Art: The Old Testament. London, 1956: 219, pl. 107.

1958: Merritt, Howard S. “Bachiacca Studies: The Uses of Imitation.” Ph.D. diss., Princeton University, 1958: 114.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 104, repro.

1961: Merritt, Howard S., ed. Bacchiacca and his Friends: Florentine Paintings and Drawings of the Sixteenth Century. Exh. cat. Baltimore Museum of Art, 1961: 22, 30-33, fig. 19.

1961: Walker, John, Guy Emerson, and Charles Seymour. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 112, repro. pl. 103, color repro. pl. 92.

1963: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Florentine School. 2 vols. London, 1963: 1:21. 2:pl.1249

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 9.

1966: Nikolenko, Lada. Francesco Ubertini Called Il Bacchiacca. Locust Valley, NY, 1966: 22, 59, fig. 71.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 3, repro.

1972: Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 13, 646.

1973: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 8-9, fig. 13-14.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 14, repro.

1978: Brigstocke, Hugh. Italian and Spanish Paintings in the National Gallery of Scotland. Edinburgh, 1978: 9, 10.

1978: Colbert, Charles D. “Bacchiacca in the Context of Florentine Art.” Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1978: 82.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:21-22; 2:pl. 13.

1979: Watson, Ross. The National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1979: 47, pl. 29.

1981: Rosenthal, Gertude, ed. Italian Paintings XIV-XVIIIth Cenuries from the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, 1981: 94.

1983: Mészáros, László. Italien sieht Dührer: zur Wirkung der deutschen Druckgraphick auf die Italienische Kunst des 16. Jahrhunderts. Erlangen, 1983: 271, no. 248.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 172, no. 192, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 34, repro.

1993: Brigstocke, Hugh. Italian and Spanish Paintings in the National Gallery of Scotland. 3rd ed. Edinburgh, 1993: 23-24, fig. 1.

1993: Cox-Rearick, Janet. Bronzino’s Chapel of Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1993: 219-221.

1995: Cattaneo Adorno, Carlotta, et al. Il Palazzo Durazzo Pallavicini. Genoa, 1995: 289.

2000: Fahy, Everett. Dipinti, disegni, miniature, stampe: L'Archivio storico fotografico di Stefano Bardini. Florence, 2000: 44, no. 356.

2002: La France, Robert G. “Francesco d’Ubertino Verdi, il Bachiacca, 1494-1557: ‘Diligente Dipintore.’” Ph.D. diss., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2002: cat. 56.

2003: La France, Robert G. “Bachiacca’s Formula for Success.” In Marcello Fantoni, Louis Chevalier Matthew, and Sarah F. Matthews Grieco, eds. The Art Market in Italy, 15th – 17th Cenrueies / Il mercato dell’arte in Italia secc. XV-XVII. Modena, 2003: 237-238.

2007: Fara, Giovanni Maria. Inventario generale delle stampe del Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi. I. Albrecht Dürer. Originali, copie, derivazioni. Florence, 2007: 233, 237, 241.

2008: La France, Robert G. Bachiacca: Artist of the Medici Court. Florence, 2008: 4-6, 76, 91-92, 101, 104, 106, 112, 202, 208, 215, 216-218, 225, 226, 244, 252, 259, 262, 290, 291, 296, 298, cat. 62, pl. XLIX, figs. 21, 23.

2011: Boskovits, Miklós, ed. The Alana Collection, Newark, Delaware, USA. Vol. II: Italian Paintings and Sculptures from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century. Florence, 2011: 27.