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Bonino da Campione

Prudence, c. 1357

Not on View

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 67.7 x 19.1 x 15.2 cm (26 5/8 x 7 1/2 x 6 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1960.5.6

Artists / Makers

Bonino da Campione (artist) Lombard, active 1357 - 1397

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Marks and Labels

(Prince of Liechtenstein inventory number);in crayon, underlined: 295

Provenance

Stefano Bardini [1836-1922], Florence.[1] Prince Johan II of Liechtenstein [1840-1929], Vienna, by 1896;[2] Prince Franz I of Liechtenstein [1853-1938]; Prince Franz Josef II of Liechtenstein [1906-1989]; acquired 2 April 1953 by (J. Seligmann & Co., New York);[3] purchased 1954 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1960 to NGA.

[1] Lusanna, Enrica Neri and Lucia Faedo. Il Museo Bardini a Firenze, volume secondo: le sculture, Firenze, 1986: 31.

[2] Bode, Wilhelm von, Die Fürstlich Leichtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie, Vienna, 1896: 130.

[3] See letters to Jacques Seligmann & Company from the Director of the Liechtenstein Collection, dated 2 April 1953, in the Jacques Seligmann & Co. Records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington: Box 244; copies in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Bardini, Stefano
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Liechtenstein, Prince Franz Josef II of
Liechtenstein, Prince Franz I of
Liechtenstein, Prince Johann II of
Liechtenstein, Princes of
Seligmann & Cie., Jacques

Exhibition History

2015: Arte lombarda dai Visconti agli Sforza. Milano al centro dell'Europa, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2015, no. I.26, repro.

Bibliography

1896: Bode, Wilhelm von. Die Fürstlich Leichtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie. Vienna, 1896: 130.

1927: Kronfeld, Adolf. Führer durch die Fürstlich-Liechtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie in Wien. Vienna, 1927: XVII.

1931: Kronfeld, Adolf. Führer durch die Fürstlich-Liechtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie in Wien. Vienna, 1931: XVIII.

1954: Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc. A Catalogue of Seven Marble Sculptures of the Italian Trecento and Quattrocento from the Collection of his Highness the Prince of Liechtenstein. New York, 1954: 10-16, 32-33, repros. 12-14.

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: 216-219, no. 87, repro.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 385, repro.

1961: Seligman, Germain. Merchants of Art: 1880-1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting. New York, 1961: 257, repro. pl. 122.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 147.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 130, repro.

1976: Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 11.

1984: Scalia, Fiorenza and Cristina de Benedictis, eds. Il Museo Bardini a Firenze. 2 vols. Florence, 1984-1986: 2(1986): 29 repro., 31.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 32, repro.

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.

2001: Vergani, Graziano Alfredo. L’arca di Bernabo Visconti al Castello Sforzesco di Milano. Milan, 2001: 131-133, 166, repro. 133.