Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John
c. 1505
Painter, Spanish, active 1505/1531


West Building Main Floor, Gallery 19
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil and tempera on panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 78.4 x 64.1 cm (30 7/8 x 25 1/4 in.)
framed: 103.5 x 89.5 x 9.8 cm (40 3/4 x 35 1/4 x 3 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1939.1.305
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Sir Giles Sebright, Beechwood, Boxmoor and London; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 2 July 1937, no. 110, as by Leonardo da Vinci); sold to (Giuseppe Bellesi, London) for (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence); purchased 1938 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1378.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 186, no. 416, as by Sodoma.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 248, repro. 190, as by Sodoma.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 115, repro., as by Sodoma.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 86, repro., as by Sodoma.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 124, as by Sodoma.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 110, repro., as by Sodoma.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 144, fig. 354.
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:409, as by Sodoma.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 189, 337, 646, as Attributed to Sodoma.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 330, repro., as by Sodoma.
1976
Hayum, Andrée. Giovanni Antonio Bazzi - "Il Sodoma". New York and London, 1976: 276.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:184-185; 2:pl. 128, 128A, as Florentine School, Early XVI Century.
1982
Trutty-Coohill, P. "Studies in the School of Leonardo da Vinci: Paintings in Public Collections in the U.S. with a Chronology of the Activity of Leonardo ... and a Catalogue ...." Ph.D. dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1982: 279-285.
1983
Leonardo e il Leonardismo a Napoli e a Roma. Exh. cat. Palazzo Barberini, Rome. Florence, 1983: 65, fig. 60.
1984
Dalli Regoli, Gigetta. La preveggenza della vergine. Struttura, stile, iconografia nelle Madonna del Cinquecento. Pisa, 1984: 12, 39, fig. 28.
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 219, no. 272, color repro., as by Sodoma.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 377, repro., as by Sodoma.
1987
Marani, Pietro C. Leonardo e i Leonardeschi a Brera. Florence, 1987: 120, 123.
1990
Brown, Jonathan, and Richard G. Mann. Spanish Paintings of the Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1990: 129-133, color repro. 131.
2003
Gregori, Mina, ed. In the Light of Apollo: Italian Renaissance and Greece. 2 vols. Exh. cat. National Gallery and Alexandros Souzos Museum, Athens, 2003-2004: 1:332, as ascribed to Sodoma.
2023
Kondziella, Martha. Sodoma: Die Tafel- und Leinwanbilder. Merzhausen, 2023: 492, cat. X5.
Wikidata ID
Q20174993