Standing Angel

c. 1495/1500

Venetian 15th Century

Sculptor

Giovanni Battista Bregno

Sculptor, Venetian, 1467/1477 - after 1518

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    marble

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 86 x 28 x 30 cm (33 7/8 x 11 x 11 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.4.72

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased 1895 in Italy by Max Chabrières-Arlès, Lyon. Clarence H. Mackay [1874-1938], Roslyn, New York, by 1926;[1] his estate; sold through (Jacques Seligmann and Co., New York) to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[2] purchased 1939 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1943 to NGA.
[1] Published in The Clarence H. Mackay Collection, New York, 1926: pl. 18.
[2] See Mackay files in Seligmann papers, Archives of American Art, boxes 238-239 (copies in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1913

  • Exposition d'Objets d'Art du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, Hotel de Sagan, Paris, 1913, unnumbered catalogue, pl. VII.

2009

  • Tullio Lombardo and Venetian High Renaissance Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2009, no. 9, repro.

Bibliography

1926

  • Valentiner, W.R. The Clarence H. Mackay Collection. New York, 1926: no. 18, as by Pietro Lombardo, repro.

1941

  • Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 227, no. A-47, as A Singing Angel.

1942

  • Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 254, repro. 230, as A Singing Angel.

1944

  • Duveen Brothers, Inc. Duveen Sculpture in Public Collections of America: A Catalog Raisonné with illustrations of Italian Renaissance Sculptures by the Great Masters which have passed through the House of Duveen. New York, 1944: figs. 151-153, as Singing Angel.

1945

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 194, repro., as A Singing Angel.

1949

  • Seymour, Charles. Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1949: 180, note 40, repro. 124-126, as A Singing Angel.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 414, repro., as A Singing Angel.

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: 56, repro. pl. 49.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 161, as A Singing Angel.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 142, repro., as A Singing Angel.

1976

  • Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 57.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 632, no. 989, repro., as A Singing Angel.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 138, repro.

2000

  • National Gallery of Art Special Issue. Connaissance des Arts. Paris, 2000:59.

Wikidata ID

Q63810200

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