Madonna and Child with Queen Sancia, Saints, and Angels

c. 1335

Tino di Camaino

Artist, Tuscan, c. 1285 - 1337

Three women, a man, child, and four winged angels are carved in relief on a panel to occupy a shallow space in this white marble sculpture. The group fills the panel, which is square on the bottom and comes to a triangular point at the top. The people have narrow, almost slitted eyes, straight noses, and thin lips. One of the women, Mary, sits on a throne at the center holding a child, Jesus, who stands one of her knees. Mary wears a crown, and her robes drape to the floor. One hand wraps around Jesus’s torso. He holds something down by his side with one hand and reaches the other up with the first two fingers raised toward a woman, Queen Sancia, who kneels in the lower left corner of the panel. Mary reaches her other arm out to touch Queen Sancia’s head as well. The queen and others in the scene are smaller in scale than Mary. Queen Sancia faces our right in profile as she looks at Jesus with her arms crossed over her chest. She and the woman standing behind her both wear veils that cover their foreheads, chins, and necks. The standing woman touches Queen Sancia’s shoulder with one hand and holds the other to her own chest. A man standing on Mary’s other side, in the lower right corner, wears a hooded robe and holds a book and a cross. He has a beard, and his hair is cut into a ring around his head. Winged angels stand with hands held across their chests behind the man and Queen Sancia. Two more angels hold up a cloth behind Mary and Jesus. The edges of the panel are carved to resemble molding.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    marble

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 51.44 × 37.8 × 5.72 cm, 33 lb. (20 1/4 × 14 7/8 × 2 1/4 in., 14.969 kg)
    framed: 57.79 × 44.45 × 7.94 cm (22 3/4 × 17 1/2 × 3 1/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1960.5.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Arthur Sambon, Paris); (sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 25-28 May 1914, no. 400). Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Florence and Rome. Henry Goldman [1857-1937], New York, by 1923;[1] Mrs. Henry Goldman, in 1938.[2] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased 1944 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1960 to NGA.
[1] Published in Art in America, 1923: 304-305, as in the Goldman Collection.
[2] The painting was lent by Mrs. Goldman to an exhibition in Detroit in 1938.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1938

  • Eighteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures [cover title: Italian Sculpture 1250-1500], Detroit Institute of Arts, 1938, no. 12, repro.

1946

  • Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. A-156.

Bibliography

1923

  • Valentiner, Wilhelm R. "Studies in Italian Gothic Plastic Art: I: Tino di Camiano." Art In America 11 (1923):304-305

1925

  • "Gothic Sculpture from Siena and Pisa." Bulletin of The Detroit Institute of Arts 7 (December 1925): 27

1945

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 173, repro.

1946

  • Frankfurter, Alfred M. Supplement to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1946: 19, repro.

1949

  • Seymour, Charles. Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1949: 173, note 12, repro. 49-52.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 386, repro.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 172.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 152, repro.

1976

  • Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 5.

1979

  • Sutton, Denys. "Robert Langton Douglas. Part IV." Apollo 110 (July 1979): 49 [241], 52 [244] fig. 15.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 622, no. 958, repro.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 224, repro.

2002

  • Darr, Alan, Peter Barnet, and Antonia Boström. Catalogue of Italian Sculptures in the Detroit Institute of Arts. 2 vols. London, 2002: 1:73.

Wikidata ID

Q63854811

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