Madonna and Child with Angels

c. 1455/1470

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tempera on poplar panel

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 53.5 x 36.2 cm (21 1/16 x 14 1/4 in.)
    framed: 68.6 x 51.4 x 7 cm (27 x 20 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1939.1.115


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Stefano Bardini [1836-1922], Florence), by 1890.[1] (Leo Nardus [1868-1955], Suresnes, France, and New York), by 1910.[2] Marczell von Nemes [1866-1930], Munich and Budapest.[3] Private collection, Rome, by 1930.[4] (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossa, Rome); sold November 1932 to the Samuel H. Kress Collection, New York;[5] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] Fiorenza Scalia and Cristina de Benedictis, Il Museo Bardini a Firenze, Milan, 1984: 125, pls. LXXIII, LXXIV, XCI.
[2] Salomon Reinach, Répertoire de peintures du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance (1280-1580), 6 vols., Paris, 1905-1923: 3(1910):462.
[3] Record of ownership noted in Kress collection records, in NGA curatorial files; see note 5.
[4] Adolfo Venturi, "Eine Madonna von Francesco del Cossa," Pantheon 5 (June 1930): 249-250.
[5] The bill for two paintings, one of them "Madonna, Child and Angels by Francesco del Cossa...From the collection of Baron von Nemes, Munich," is dated 1 November 1932 (copy in NGA curatorial records). See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1359.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2007

  • Cosmè Tura e Francesco del Cossa. L'arte a Ferrara nell'età di Borso d'Este, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, 2007-2008, no. 94, repro., as by Francesco del Cossa.

Bibliography

1905

  • Reinach, Salomon. Répertoire de peintures du moyen âge et de la Renaissance (1280-1580). 6 vols. Paris, 1905-1923: 3(1910):462, as Paduan School.

1930

  • Venturi, Adolfo. "Eine Madonna von Francesco del Cossa." Pantheon 5 (1930): 249-250, repro., as by Francesco del Cossa.

1934

  • Longhi, Roberto. Officina Ferrarese. Rome, 1934: 46, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1936

  • Berenson, Bernard. Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento. Milan, 1936: 134, as by Francesco del Cossa.

  • Arslan, Edoardo. “Review of Roberto Longhi, Officina Ferrarese (1934).” Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte 5 (1936): 178, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1941

  • Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 45, no. 226, as by Francesco del Cossa.

  • Ortolani, Sergio. Cosmé Tura, Francesco del Cossa, Ercole de'Roberti. Milan, 1941: 85, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1942

  • Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 244, repro. 88, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1945

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 76, fig. 226, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1950

  • Nicolson, Benedict. The Painters of Ferrara. London, 1950: 12, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1956

  • Longhi, Roberto. Officina ferrarese (1934), seguíta dagli Ampliamenti (1940) e dai Nuovi ampliamenti (1940-1955). Florence, 1956: 30, fig. 85, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1957

  • Ruhmer, Eberhard. “Review of Roberto Longhi, Officina Ferrarese (1956).” Zeitschrift fur Kustgeschichte 20 (1957): 91, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1958

  • Neppi, Alberto. Francesco Del Cossa. Milan, 1958: 11, repro., as doubtfully by Francesco del Cossa.

  • Volpe, Carlo. “Tre vetrate ferraresi e il Rinascimento a Bologna.” Arte Antica e Moderna 1 (1958): 24, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1959

  • Ruhmer, Eberhard. Francesco Del Cossa. Munich, 1959: 67, fig. 4, as by Francesco del Cossa.

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 114, repro., as by Francesco del Cossa.

1960

  • Frabetti, Giuliano. “Review of Alberto Neppi, Francesco del Cossa (1958).” Emporium 66 (1960): 191, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1961

  • Olsen, Harald. Italian Paintings and Sculpture in Denmark. Amsterdam, 1961: 55, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 32.

1966

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 85, fig. 235, as Attributed to Francesco del Cossa.

1967

  • Zeri, Federico. “Early Italian Pictures in the Kress Collection.” The Burlington Magazine 109 (August 1967): 477, as not by Francesco del Cossa, "in a style recalling that of a miniaturist, situated not far distant from what one takes to be the earliest period of Giovanni Francesco de' Maineri."

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 25, repro.

  • Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:94, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1972

  • Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 56, 217, 645, as by Francesco del Cossa or an Unidentified Ferrarese Painter.

1974

  • Molajoli, Rosemarie. L'Opera completa di Cosmè Tura e i grandi pittori ferraresi del suo tempo: Francesco Cossa e Ercole de'Roberti. Milan, 1974: no. 71, repro., as by Francesco del Cossa.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 82, repro.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:143-144; 2:pl. 101, as Attributed to Francesco del Cossa.

1984

  • Scalia, Fiorenza, and Cristina de Benedictis. Il Museo Bardini: A Firenze. Milan, 1984: 125, pls. 73, 74, 91.

  • Bacchi, Andrea. “Vicende della pittura nell’eta di Giovanni II Bentivoglio.” In Bruno Basile, ed. Bentivolorum Magnificentia: Principe e cultura a Bologna nel Rinascimento. Rome, 1984: 294-295, fig. 4, as by Francesco del Cossa.

  • Benati, Daniele. “La pittura rinascimentale.” In Luciano Bellosi, ed. La Basilica di San Petronio in Bologna. 2 vols. Cinisello Balsamo (Milan), 1984: 2:158, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 101, repro., as Attributed to Francesco del Cossa.

1986

  • Bacchi, Andrea. "Francesco del Cossa." In Federico Zeri, ed. La pittura in Italia. Il Quattrocento. 2 vols. Milan, 1986: 2:603, as by Francesco del Cossa.

  • Bacchi, Andrea. “Tre artisti nella Bologna dei Bentivoglio: Appunti su una mostra.” Arte Cristiana 74, no. 715 (July – August 1986): 284, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1987

  • Lucco, Mauro. “La pittura a Bologna e in Romagna nel secondo Quattrocento.” In Federico Zeri, ed. La pittura in Italia. Il Quattroento. 2 vols. Milan, 1987: 1:242, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1988

  • Benati, Daniele. La bottega degli Erri e la pittura del Rinascimento a Modena. Modena, 1988: 52, 67, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1990

  • Manca, Joseph. “A Ferrarese Painter of the Quattrocento.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 116, no. 1462 (1990): 157, 159, 160, 161, 164, 165, 168, fig. 4, as by Gherardo d’Andrea Costa (?).

  • Colección Cambó. Exh. cat. Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1990: 191,201-202, repro., as Attributed to Francesco del Cossa.

1991

  • Bacchi, Andrea. Francesco del Cossa. Soncino, 1991: 19-20, 23, 40, pl 1, as by Francesco del Cossa.

  • Molfino, Alessandra Mottola, and Mauro Natale, eds. Le Muse e il Principe: Arte di corte nel Rinascimento Padano. 2 vols. Exh. cat. Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, 1991: 1:300, 302, fig. 327, 360, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1992

  • Manca, Joseph. The Art of Ercole de’ Roberti. Cambridge and New York, 1992: 174.

  • Conradi, Katja. "Cossa, Francesco del." In Saur. Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon. Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. Munich and Leipzig, 119 vols. Munich and Leipzig, 1992-2023: 21(1999):403.

1993

  • Lloyd, Christopher. Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago. Princeton, 1993: 65.

  • Gagliardi, Jacques. La conquête de la peinture: L’Europe des ateliers du XIIIe au XVe siècle. Paris, 1993: 488, as by Francesco del Cossa.

1996

  • Lippincott, Kristen. “Francesco del Cossa.” In Jane Turner, ed. The Dictionary of Art. 34 vols. New York and London, 1996: 7:924, fig. 1, as by Francesco del Cossa.

2000

  • Fahy, Everett. Dipinti, disegni, miniature, stampe: L'Archivio storico fotografico di Stefano Bardini. Florence, 2000: 36, no. 232, as Attributed to Francesco del Cossa.

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: 261-265, color repro.

  • Sgarbi, Vittorio. Francesco del Cossa. Milan, 2003: 31 repro., 52, 221, 222-223, cat. 1, 234, as by Francesco del Cossa.

2005

  • Cavalca, Cecilia. “Francesco del Cossa e Firenze: tre ricami e la pala con l’Annunciazione di Dresda.” Nuovi Studi 11 (2005): 44, as by Francesco del Cossa.

2006

  • Fahy, Everett. "Early Italian paintings in Washington and Philadelphia." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1241 (August 2006): 539 n. 5.

2007

  • Cavalca, Cecilia. “Francesco del Cossa tra Ferrara, Firenze e Bologna.” In Mauro Natale, ed. Cosmè Tura e Francesco del Cossa. L’arte a Ferrara nell’età di Borso d’Este. Exh. cat. Palazzo dei Diamanti and Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara, 2007: 367-368, repro., as by Francesco del Cossa.

  • Natale, Mauro, and Giovanni Sassu. “In mostra.” In Mauro Natale, ed. Cosmè Tura e Francesco del Cossa. L’arte a Ferrara nell’età di Borso d’Este. Exh. cat. Palazzo dei Diamanti and Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara, 2007: 51, as by Francesco del Cossa.

2010

  • Rowley, Neville. “Pittura di luce: La manière claire dans la peinture du Quattrocento.” Ph.D. Diss., Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2010: 160-161, fig. 263, as by Francesco del Cossa.

2016

  • Paolucci, Antonio, et al, eds. Piero della Francesca: Indagine su un mito. Exh. cat. Museo San Domenico, Forlì, 2016: 138, as by Francesco del Cossa.

2023

  • Danieli, Michele. “Rinascimento padano.” In Vittorio Sgarbi and Michele Danieli, eds. Rinascimento a Ferrara. Ercole de’ Roberti e Lorenzo Costa. Exh. cat. Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, 2023: 63, as by Francesco del Cossa.

  • Danieli, Michele. “L’esordio di Ercole a Ferrara.” In Vittorio Sgarbi and Michele Danieli, eds. Rinascimento a Ferrara. Ercole de’ Roberti e Lorenzo Costa. Exh. cat. Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, 2023: fig. 20, as by Francesco del Cossa.

Wikidata ID

Q20173720


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