Saint Paul

c. 1340

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    marble

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 60.2 x 21.5 x 8.9 cm (23 11/16 x 8 7/16 x 3 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1960.5.13

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Rome); purchased July 1930 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1960 to NGA.
[1] The bill of sale for the purchase of this sculpture and two others in the same group, NGA 1960.5.11 and .12 (along with twenty paintings) is dated 16 July 1930; payment was made in three installments through November 1930 (copy in NGA curatorial files). Ulrich Middeldorf's entry that includes the sculpture contains an error: the year of the Kress Foundation's acquisition is incorrectly given as 1954 (Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century, London, 1976: 12).

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Bibliography

1956

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 248, 250, no. 104, repro. 253, as by Master of the Mascoli Alter.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 395, repro., as by Master of the Mascoli Altar.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 162, as Master of the Mascoli Altar.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 143, repro., as Master of the Mascoli Altar.

1976

  • Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 12.

  • Wolters, Wolfgang. La Scultura Veneziana Gotica (1300-1460). 2 vols. Venice, 1976: 1:165, no. 36; 2:fig. 119.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 227, 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, esp. 104, 106-107.

2014

  • Bourdua, Louise. "What Petrarch Saw: Venice Revisited in the Later Middle Ages." Center, Record of Activities and Research Reports 34 (2014): 61-63.

Wikidata ID

Q63854426

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