Madonna Adoring the Child
c. 1520
Artist, Venetian, active 1496 - 1530


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 12
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 20.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/8 x 6 1/2 in.)
framed: 32.1 x 27.9 x 4.1 cm (12 5/8 x 11 x 1 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1939.1.144
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Contessa di Breganze, Venice.[1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Florence and Rome); sold 1934 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York[2]; gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] According to Kress files in NGA curatorial records.
[2] See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1320.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 16-17, no. 255.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 244, repro. 64.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 145, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 10.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 3, repro.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 154, fig. 374.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 17, 645.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 18, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:29-30; 2: repro. pl. 18.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 219, no. 271, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 36, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: M. BASAITI / P., painted over the original signature MARCHVS / BAXAITI P.
Wikidata ID
Q20175626