Madonna and Child
c. 1445/1450
Artist, Florentine, c. 1410 - 1461
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 4
Artwork overview
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Medium
tempera on poplar panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 83 x 57 cm (32 11/16 x 22 7/16 in.)
framed: 124.5 x 100.3 x 9.8 cm (49 x 39 1/2 x 3 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1939.1.221
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Richard Lovell Edgeworth [1744-1817], Edgeworthstown, co. Longford, Ireland; by inheritance to his daughter, Maria Edgeworth [1767-1849], Edgeworthstown; by inheritance to her half-brother, Charles Sneyd Edgeworth [d. 1864], Edgeworthstown; by inheritance to Maria's and Charles' half-nephew, Prof. Francis Ysidro Edgeworth [1845-1926];[1] Acquired 1929 by (Julius Böhler, Munich);[2] purchased 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[3] sold May 1936 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] The catalogue of the 1930 exhibition in London gives the provenance as "Professor Edgeworth, Edgeworthstown, Ireland." A more detailed list of the previous owners is given in Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America, New York, 1941: no. 42. On the Edgeworth family see The Dictionary of National Biography. The Concise Dictionary, Part 1, Oxford, 1953: 384, and Part 2, Oxford, 1961: 131. Julius Böhler sent Joseph Duveen a postcard of "Edgeworthstown House" and wrote in the postscript to the accompanying letter: "I am sorry I cannot give you more than the enclosed postcard regarding the pedigree of the Domenico Veneziano. This is the place and the people the picture comes from. I know nothing more and the picture was the only picture in the place." (Copy in NGA curatorial files; Box 299, Folder 1, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles).
[2] Böhler Inventory card no. 226-29, Getty Research Institute gives source as "Sarasota." (copy NGA curatorial file).
[3] Correspondence between Böhler and Joseph Duveen in the Duveen Brothers Records documents the purchase from the 1930 exhibition (copies in NGA curatorial files; Box 299, Folder 1, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles).
[4] The Duveen Brothers letter confirming the sale of thirteen paintings and one sculpture, including NA 1939.1.221, is dated 18 May 1936; the provenance is given as "Prof. Edgeworth Coll'n" (copy in NGA curatorial files; Box 474, Folder 5, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles). See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1326.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1930
Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1930, no. 115 (no. 110, pl. XLI in commemorative catalogue published 1931; not in souvenir catalogue).
1935
L'art italien de Cimbaue à Tiepolo, Petit Palais, Paris, 1935, no. 141.
2002
The Flowering of Florence, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2002, no. 1, repro.
Bibliography
1930
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1931
Gamba, Carlo. “Dipinti fiorentini di raccolta americane all’esposizione di Londra.” Dedalo 11, no. 9 (February 1931): 583, 576, repro.
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1933
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1934
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1935
Serra, Luigi. "La mostra dell’antica arte italiana a Parigi: la pittura." Bollettino d’arte 29 (1935-1936): 33, 37, repro.
1937
Busuioceanu, Alexandru. “Una nuova Madonna di Domenico Veneziano.” L’Arte n.s. 8 (1937): 99-100.
1938
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1940
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1941
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1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 246, repro. 98.
1944
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1945
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1951
Clark, Kenneth. Piero della Francesca. London, 1951: 3.
1952
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 14, color repro.
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1953
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1954
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1958
Wohl, Hellmut. “Domenico Veneziano Studies.” Ph.D. diss., New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, 1958: 232-244, passim.
1959
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1960
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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: 6, color repro.
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1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 298, repro.
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Florentine School. 2 vols. London, 1963: 1:62. 2:pl.708.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 42.
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Bacci, Mina. Domenico Veneziano. Milan, 1965: pls. 8, 9.
1966
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:32, color repro.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 103, fig. 278.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 35, repro.
Shell, Curtis. “Domenico Veneziano. Two Clues.” In Festschrift Ulrich Middeldorf. 2 vols. Berlin, 1968: 1:150, 153, 154, pl. 85, fig. 4.
1969
Clark, Kenneth. Piero della Francesca. 2nd ed. London and New York, 1969: 11.
1971
Battisti, Eugenio. Piero della Francesca. 2 vols. Milan, 1971: 1:35.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 66, 645.
1974
Meiss, Millard. French Painting in the Time of Jean de Berry: The Limbourgs and their Contemporaries. New York, 1974: 3, part 1:246.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 108, repro.
1977
Levi d'Ancona, Mirella. The Garden of the Renaissance: Botanical Symbolism in Italian Painting. Florence, 1977: 349.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:158-159; 2:pl. 112.
1980
Wohl, Hellmut. The Paintings of Domenico Veneziano. Oxford, 1980: 35, 75-76, 129, 133-134, pls. 132-136.
1981
Christiansen, Keith. “Review of Hellmut Wohl, Domenico Veneziano.” Apollo 114 (1981): 66.
1982
Christiansen, Keith. Gentile da Fabriano. London, 1982: 43.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 09, no. 49, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 131, repro.
1986
Frulli, Cristina. “Domenico Veneziano/Domenico di Bartolomeo.” In Federico Zeri, ed. La pittura in Italia. Il Quattrocento. 2 vols. Milan, 1986: 2:620.
1988
Kecks, Ronald G. Madonna und Kind. Das häusliche Andachtsbild im Florenz des 15. Jahrhunderts. Berlin, 1988: 55, 75, 94-95, 97, repro.
1990
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1991
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1992
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1993
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1996
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Popescu, Grigore Arbore, ed. Da Antonello da Messina a Rembrandt: Capolavori d’arte europea dal Museo nazionale d’arte di Romania, Bucarest e dal Museo nazionale Brukenthal, Sibiu. Exh. cat. Museo della Permanente, Milan 1996: 26.
1997
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1999
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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: 251-254, color repro.
2006
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2010
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2012
Natali, Antonio, Enrica Neri Lusanna, and Angelo Tartuferi, eds. Bagliori dorati: Il Gotico Internazionale a Firenze 1375-1440. Exh. cat. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, 2012: 306.
2013
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2016
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2017
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2022
De Marchi, Andrea and Davide Civettini. Pseudo Pier Francesco Fiorentino: Cristo di Dolori. Florence, 2022: 7, 40, n. 22.
Wikidata ID
Q3842467