Madonna and Sleeping Child

c. 1500/1510

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G17

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    marble

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 50.8 x 56.8 x 16.5 cm (20 x 22 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1960.5.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mr. Otto Kahn [1867-1934] and Mrs. Otto Kahn [Addie Wolff Kahn, d. 1949], New York. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1960 to NGA.
[1]See original Duveen prospectus in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1946

  • Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. A-158.

1996

  • Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, unnumbered catalogue, 34-35, color repro.

Bibliography

1945

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 197, repro.

1946

  • Frankfurter, Alfred M. Supplement to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1946: 43, repro.

1949

  • Seymour, Charles. Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1949: 180, note 39, repro. 122-123.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 421, repro.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 171.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 151, repro.

1976

  • Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 59.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 221, 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

Q63854528

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