Madonna and Child
c. 1490
Artist, Venetian, c. 1430/1435 - 1495
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 13
Artwork overview
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Medium
tempera on panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
painted surface: 32.8 x 24.7 cm (12 15/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
support (includes frame, carved from single piece of wood): 39 x 30.9 cm (15 3/8 x 12 1/8 in.) -
Accession
1939.1.264
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Eugen Miller von Aichholz [1835-1919], Vienna.[1] Camillo Castiglioni, Vienna, by 1924;[2] (his sale, Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 17-20 November 1925, no. 10); purchased by (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London and New York) for Mme E. ten Cate, Enschede, The Netherlands; purchased April 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[3] sold 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] Collections Camillo Castiglioni de Vienne, 3 vols., Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 1925: 1:3. According to a memorandum of 7 April 1949 (in NGA curatorial files), William Suida recalled that about 1910 von Aichholz told him he had bought this picture, perhaps around 1890, from a nobleman in a castle in the Romagna, Italy.
[2] Castiglioni lent the painting to the 1924 exhibition in Vienna.
[3] The negotiations for the painting were begun in February 1930, and are documented in a series of messages between Duveen Brothers' offices in New York, Paris, and London. The sale was concluded by 15 April 1930, when the Paris office cabled New York: "Concluded Crivelli...plus 10 percent for Venturi. Funds must be paid immediately...as are warned if payment delayed after holidays lady may change her mind." (Copies are in NGA curatorial files; Box 234, Folder 10, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles). See also Franz Drey, Carlo Crivelli und seine Schule. Munich, 1927: 122-123, and Pietro Zampetti, Carlo Crivelli, Florence, 1986: 287.
[4] The Duveen Brothers letter confirming the sale of twenty-four paintings, including NGA 1939.1.264, is dated 9 March 1937; the provenance is given as "Ten Cate Collection" (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/1328.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1924
Meisterwerke Italienischer Renaissancekunst aus Privatbesitz, Secession, Vienna, 1924, no. 24, repro.
2015
Ornament & Illusion: Carlo Crivelli of Venice, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2015-2016, no. 24, repro.
2016
Carlo Crivelli, A Renaissance Original, The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 2016, no catalogue.
Bibliography
1923
Marle, Raimond van. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. 19 vols. The Hague, 1923-1938: 18(1936):50-51, repro.
1926
Feuillet, Maurice. “Les grandes ventes étrangères: La Collection Camillo Castiglione de Vienne.” Le Figaro Artistique (11 February 1926): 283, 284, repro.
1927
Drey, Franz. Carlo Crivelli und seine Schule. Munich, 1927: 50-51, 122-123, pl. 7.
1933
Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America. 3 vols. New York and Milan, 1933: 2:pl.361.
1941
Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 67, repro.
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 49-50, no. 375.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 93.
1944
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 45, repro.
1952
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Painters of the Renaissance. 3rd edition. Oxford, 1952: pl. 12.
Zampetti, Pietro. Carlo Crivelli nelle marche. Urbino, 1952: 70.
1954
Godfrey, Frederick M. Early Italian Painters, 1415-1495. London, 1954: 20-21, fig. 35.
1957
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 12.
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School. 2 vols. London, 1957: 1:71.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 129, repro.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Early Italian Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1959 (Booklet Number Three in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 36, color repro.
1961
Bovero, Anna. Tutta la pittura del Crivelli. Milan, 1961: 73-74, pl. 91.
Zampetti, Pietro. Carlo Crivelli. Milan, 1961: 96, fig. 142.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 302, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 35.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 28, repro.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 36-37, fig. 84.
1974
Bovero, Anna. L’opera completa del Crivelli. Milan, 1974: 94, 95, fig. 117.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 88, repro.
1977
Levi d'Ancona, Mirella. The Garden of the Renaissance: Botanical Symbolism in Italian Painting. Florence, 1977: 91, cited with erroneous title.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:149-150; 2:pl. 105.
1981
Hansen, Abby. “Coral in Children’s Portraits. A Charm against the Evil Eye.” Antiques 120, no. 4 (December 1981): 1424, repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 107, repro.
1986
Zampetti, Pietro. Carlo Crivelli. Florence, 1986: 287, pl. 77.
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: 236-239, color repro.
2004
Lightbown, Ronald. Carlo Crivelli. New Haven and London, 2004: 388, 390, fig. 177.
2005
Sharp, John. “Carlo Crivelli.” Ph.D. diss., Indiana University, 2005: 114-115, 210, fig. 52 (chapter 2), fig. 12 (chapter 3).
2021
Barkan, Leonard. The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance. Princeton, 2021: 133-134, fig. 3.40.
Wikidata ID
Q3842394