Madonna and Child

c. 1490

Bartolomeo Montagna

Artist, Italian, c. 1450/1454 - 1523

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on poplar panel

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 56.2 x 45.7 cm (22 1/8 x 18 in.)
    framed: 75.3 x 65.7 cm (29 5/8 x 25 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1939.1.29


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Probably purchased in Italy by Robert Curzon, later 14th baron Zouche [1810-1873], Pelham Park, Pulborough, Sussex; by inheritance to his son, Robert Nathaniel Cecil George Curzon, 15th baron Zouche [1851-1914], Pelham Park; by inheritance to the latter's sister, Darea Curzon, Baroness Zouche [1860-1917]; by inheritance to her cousin, Mary Cecil Frankland, Baroness Zouche [1875-1937]; sold 1920 to (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London); sold 1924 to (C. Morland Agnew and Ansdell, London).[1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Rome); purchased October 1929 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] "Purchased in Italy by Robert Curzon, afterward Lord Zouche," according to Agnew's stock book, no. 5905; information provided by the Getty Provenance Index.
[2] The bill of sale was for four paintings, a marble plaque, and a piece of Gothic velvet (copy in NGA curatorial files. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1322).

Associated Names

Bibliography

1913

  • The Arundel Club for the Publication of Reproductions of Works of Art in Private Collections and Elsewhere. London, 1913: no. 4.

1916

  • Berenson, Bernard. _Venetian Painting in America _. New York, 1916: 176.

1932

  • Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932: 368.

1941

  • Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 134, no. 140.

1942

  • Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 242, repro. 154.

1946

  • Longhi, Roberto. Viatico per cinque secoli di pittura veneziana. Florence, 1946: 60, pl. 75.

1957

  • Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Venetian School. 2 vols. London, 1957: 1:118.

1962

  • Heinemann, Fritz. Giovanni Bellini e i belliniani. 2 vols. Venice, 1962: 1:261.

  • Puppi, Lionello. Bartolomeo Montagna. Venice, 1962: 43, 140-141, pl. 31.

  • Puppi, Lionello. “Cima e Bartolomeo Montagna.” La Provincia di Treviso 5 (1962): 16.

  • Romanini, Angiola Maria. “Una Madonna di Bartolomeo Montagna.” Commentari 12 (1962): 42-43.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 93.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 82, repro.

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 57, fig. 135.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 244, repro.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:334-335; 2:pl. 243.

  • Longhi, Roberto. Disegno della pittura italiana. 2 vols. Florence, 1979: 1:pl.228.

1981

  • Menegazzi, Luigi. Cima da Conegliano. Treviso, 1981: 10.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 283, repro.

1991

  • Heinemann, Fritz. Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani, Vol. III. Supplemento e Ampliamenti. Hildesheim, 1991: 90.

1995

  • Nielsen, Kai-Uwe. “Bartolomeo Montagna und die Venezianische Malerei des Späten Quattrocento.” Ph.D. diss., Ludwig-Maximillans Univeristät, Munich, 1995: 182-183.

2003

  • Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 526-529, color repro.

2014

  • Lucco, Mauro. Bartolomeo Cincani detto Montagna. Dipinti. Treviso, 2014: 58, 327-328, pl. 45, cat. 45.

2020

  • Zaninelli, Fulvia. "The Interesting Case of Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878-1955) and Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929)." In Florence, Berlin and Beyond. Late Nineteenth-Century Art Markets and Their Social Networks, ed. Lynn Catterson. Leiden, Boston, 2020: 290.

Wikidata ID

Q20174492


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