West Building Main Floor, Gallery 9
Artwork overview
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Medium
glazed terracotta
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 56.5 x 47.9 cm (22 1/4 x 18 7/8 in.)
framed: 106.7 x 68.6 x 12.1 cm (42 x 27 x 4 3/4 in.)
framed weight: 31.752 kg (70 lb.) -
Accession Number
1961.1.3
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Art market, Paris. Otto Kahn [1867-1934], New York, by at least 1912. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 1946 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1961 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-162.
2016
Della Robbia: Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2016-2017, no. 21, repro.
Bibliography
1892
Bode, Wilhelm von. Denkmäler der Renaissance-Sculptur Toscanas in historischer Anordung. 17 vols. plates; 1 vol. text . Munich, 1892-1905: 177, 228, repro. plate 548b.
1910
Bode, Wilhelm von. “Neuentdeckte Bildwerke in glasiertem Ton von Luca della Robbia.” Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 45 (1910): 305-307, repro.307.
1912
Marquand, Allan. Della Robbias in America. Princeton, 1912: 16-19, no. 5, repro. fig. 7.
Bode, Wilhelm von. “Luca della Robbia und sein neuester Biograph.” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 2 (1912-1917): 71-80, esp. 75.
1914
Marquand, Allan. Luca della Robbia. Princeton, 1914: 221-222, no. 62, repro. fig. 45.
1918
"G.” “The Quincy Adams Shaw Collection.” Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts XVI, no. 94 (April 1918): 11-27, esp. 22-24.
1921
Bode, Wilhelm von. Florentiner Bildhauer der Renaissance. 4th ed. Berlin, 1921: 156.
1928
Bode, Wilhelm von. Florentine Sculptors of the Renaissance. Translated by Jessie Haynes. Rev. 2nd ed. London, 1928: 156. (Reprint, New York, 1969).
1946
Eggen, J. B. “La galerie nationale d’art, Washington.” Mouseion 57/58, nos. 3-4 (1946): 1-168, esp. 98.
Douglas, Robert Langton. "Recent Additions to the Kress Collection." The Burlington Magazine 88 (1946): 81-82
1949
Galassi, Guiseppe. La scultura fiorentina del quattrocento. Milan, 1949: 123, repro. pl. 145.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 408, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 167.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 146, repro.
1976
Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 35.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 198, repro.
Wikidata ID
Q63854720