Pax with the Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints
possibly late 18th or early 19th Century
Sculptor
Artist, Florentine, 1426 - 1464
Artwork overview
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Medium
nielloed silver plate with traces of gilding in a gilded bronze frame
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
unframed: 11.1 × 7.2 cm (4 3/8 × 2 13/16 in.)
framed: 24.1 × 13.1 × 1.4 cm (9 1/2 × 5 3/16 × 9/16 in.) -
Accession
1961.9.176
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo, before 1844; (probably Costantino Lavezzari, Milan). [1] (Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, 1878-1955, Rome and Florence);[2] purchased 26 June 1935 by Samuel H. Kress (1863-1955), New York; gift 27 September 1950 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1961 to NGA.
[1] Laura Aldovini, I Nielli Trivulzio. Storia, Tecnica, Collezionismo, Milan, 2021: 84.
[2] The bill of sale included sculptures, maiolicas, furniture, antique velvets, paintings, and enamels, for a total of one hundred objects. Copy in NGA curatorial files. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, (https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/acquisitions/ACQ143).
[3] An affidavit of 21 August 1956 by Herbert L. Spencer, executive director, Samuel H. Kress Foundation, states the Trivulzio collection of nielli and enamels were given by Samuel H. Kress to the Foundation on 27 September 1950; original in National Gallery of Art Archives. Secretary and General Counsel Records – Major Donor Files; copy in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1872
Catalogo delle opere d’arte antica esposte nel Palazzo di Brera nel 1872, Milan, August-October 1872, no. 242.
1874
Esposizione storica dell’arte industriale, Salone dei Giardini di Porta Venezia, Milan, 1874, no. 53
1973
Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 2.
Bibliography
2021
Aldovini, Laura. I Nielli Trivulzio. Storia, Tecnica, Collezionismo. Milan, 2021: 109, 174, 247-249, 280, 281, no. 84, fig. 65, pl. XXXIII-XXIIIa.
Wikidata ID
Q63854513