The Holy Family with Angels

c. 1545/1550

Domenico Beccafumi

Artist, Sienese, c. 1485 - 1551

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West Building Main Floor, Gallery 20

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on panel

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1943.4.28

Artwork history & notes

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

Bibliography

1936

  • Gibellino Krasceninnicowa, Maria. “Una Sacra Famiglia di Domenico Beccafumi.” Critica d’Arte 6 (December 1936): 282, pl. 190.

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.

1955

  • Sanminiatelli, Donato. “The Sketches of Domenico Beccafumi.” The Burlington Magazine 97 (1955): 40.

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.

1967

  • Sanminiatelli, Donato. Domenico Beccafumi. Milan, 1967: 121-122, cat. 78, pl. 78.

1968

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

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

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.

1977

  • Baccheschi, Edi. L'opera completa del Beccafumi. Milan, 1977: 109-110, cat. 161.

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.

Wikidata ID

Q20176388

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