Salvator Mundi

c. 1515

Correggio

Artist, Parmese, 1489/1494 - 1534

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 18

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on panel

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 42.6 x 33.3 cm (16 3/4 x 13 1/8 in.)
    framed: 70.6 x 61.4 x 7.3 cm (27 13/16 x 24 3/16 x 2 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1961.9.68

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lord (or Baron) Kinnaird, Rossie Priory, Inchture, Perthshire, Scotland, reportedly by c. 1930.[1] (P & D Colnaghi, London and New York), by 1947; Schwabe, Manchester, England; acquired May 1956 by (Hans Schaeffer Galleries, New York); sold 1957 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1961 to NGA.
[1] According to Byam Shaw notes, in NGA curatorial files.
[2] Inventory card no. 1710, Schaeffer Galleries (Getty Research Institute, see copy in NGA curatorial files and The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1916).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1947

  • Paintings by Old Masters, P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1947, no. 3.

Bibliography

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 31.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 25, repro.

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 83, fig. 201.

1972

  • Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 56, 647.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 80, repro.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:137-138; 2:pls. 96, 96A.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 219, no. 267, color repro.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 99, repro.

2008

  • Agosti, Giovanni, and Dominique Thiébaut, eds. Mantegna 1431 - 1506. Exh. cat. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2008: 436-437, fig. 129.

2015

  • Pagliano, Eric. Disegno 2: Retour sur le catalogue des dessins italiens du musées des Beaux-Arts de Rennes. Exh. cat. Musée des beaux-arts, Rennes and Ghent, 2015: 110, 114-115, 119, figs. 2 and 9.

Wikidata ID

Q3697625

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