Madonna of Humility
c. 1400
Artist, Sienese, 1371/1374 - 1438
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 5
Artwork overview
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Medium
marble with traces of gilding
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 58.4 x 48.8 x 28.3 cm (23 x 19 3/16 x 11 1/8 in.)
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Accession
1960.5.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Prince Ercolani, Bologna. Art market, Vienna. (Jacques Seligmann, Paris and New York, stock nos. 1190/7782); sold February1920 to Henry Goldman [1857-1937], New York;[1] Goldman family, until at least 1938.[2] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1960 to NGA.
[1] Seligmann Papers, Archives of American Art, boxes 186 and 279 (copies, NGA curatorial files). See also Germain Seligman, Merchants of Art: 1880-1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting, New York, 1961, pl. 27.
[2] Lent from Goldman family to exhibition in Detroit in 1938.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1920
Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1920, unnumbered catalogue.
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. 72, repro.
1946
Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. A-157.
2010
Da Jacopo della Quercia a Donatello. Le Arti a Siena nel Primo Rinascimento, Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, 2010, no. A4, repro.
Bibliography
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 177, repro., as Madonna and Child.
1946
Frankfurter, Alfred M. Supplement to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1946: 28, repro., as Madonna and Child.
1949
Seymour, Charles. Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1949: 173-174, note 13, repro. 53-56.
L. J. Roggeveen. "De National Gallery of Art te Washington." Phoenix 4, no. 12 (December 1949): 336-337.
1951
Pope-Hennessy, John. 'Review: Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art by Charles Seymour." The Burlington Magazine 93, no. 576 (March 1951): 98.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 397, repro.
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: 12, repro.
Seligman, Germain. Merchants of Art: 1880-1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting. New York, 1961: repro. pl. 27.
1964
Eisler, Colin. Review of Seligman, Germain. Merchants of Art. New York, 1961. In Art Bulletin 46 (1964): 117.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 165.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 145, repro.
1976
Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 65.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 622, no. 959, repro.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 179, repro.
1999
Norman Herz, Katherine A. Holbrow and Shelley G. Sturman. "Marble Sculture in the National Gallery of Art: a Provenance Study." In Max Schvoerer, ed. Archéomatériaux: marbres et autres roches: ASMOSIA IV, Bordeaux, France 9-13 october 1995: actes de la IVème Conférence international de l’Association pour l’étude des marbres et autres roches utilizes dans le passé. Talence, 1999: 101-110.
Wikidata ID
Q63854668