The Madonna and Child with Saints in a Landscape (Sacra Conversazione)

1500/1510

Vittore Carpaccio

Associated Names
Vittore Carpaccio

Artist, Venetian, c. 1465 - 1525/1526

This is a drawing of a group of figures gathered outdoors. The drawing depicts multiple figures with elongated limbs and flowing garments, positioned in various postures. Some figures appear to engage with one another. Sparse trees with simple branches are visible in the background, hinting at a natural setting. The scene portrays a sense of communal gathering.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink (iron gall) with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper (cut vertically at center and reattached, laid on nineteenth century mount)

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 13.9 × 23.7 cm (5 1/2 × 9 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1990.43.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Jonathan Richardson, Senior (as by Giovanni Bellini) [1665-1745], London; Sir Anthony Westcombe, Bart. [d. 1752]; John Malcolm [1805-1893], Poltalloch; his son-in-law, The Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy [1845-1918], Newbury; Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy; The Hon. Robert Gathorne Hardy; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 24 November 1976, no. 16); British Rail Pension Fund; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1990, no. 7); NGA purchase (via David Tunick, Inc., New York) in 1990.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1930

  • Exhibition of Italian Art, 1200-1900, Royal Academy, London, 1930, no. 693 (no. 769, pl. ccxviii of the "Commemorative Catalogue" by Lord Balniel and Kenneth Clark, Oxford, 1931).

1953

  • Drawings by Old Masters, Royal Academy, London, 1953, no. 13.

1963

  • Vittore Carpaccio, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1963, no. 17bis.

1971

  • Loan Exhibition of Drawings from the Collection of Mr. Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy, P. & D. Colnaghi, London, and Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1971, no. 18, pl. xii

1980

  • Disegni veneti di collezioni inglesi, Cini Foundation, Venice, 1980, no. 8.

1992

  • Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art on Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, 11-12, no. 1.

2014

  • The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 8.

2022

  • Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 2022-2023, no. 52.

Bibliography

1869

  • Robison, John Charles. Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings... of John Malcolm of Poltalloch. Chiswick Press, London, 1869: 136.

  • Robinson, J.C. Descriptive catalogue of the drawings by the Old Masters, forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, Esq. London, 1869: 136, no. 361.

1897

  • Colvin, Sidney. "Über einige Zeichnungen des Carpaccio in England," Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen 18, 1897: 194, 195-196, 201, pl. 1.

1902

  • Descriptive catalogue of drawings...in the possession of the Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy. London, 1902: no. 42, 23-25.

1905

  • Vasari Society for the Reproduction of Drawings by Old Masters. 1908-1909, part IV, no. 7.

1923

  • Marle, Raimond van. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. 19 vols. The Hague, 1923-1938: 18(1936):340, fig. 202.

1925

  • Hadeln, Detlev von. Venezianische Zeichnungen des Quattrocento. Berlin, 1925: 54, pl. 31.

1931

  • Fiocco, Giuseppe. Carpaccio. Paris, 1931: 49, 73-74, pl. lxxxix.

1944

  • Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries. New York, 1944: 146, 149, no. 595.

1952

  • Arslan, Edoardo. "Due disegni e un dipinto di Carpaccio," Emporium 116, 1952: 109.

1956

  • Magagnato, Liciso. Catalogo della Mostra di Disegni del Museo Civico di Bassano da Carpaccio a Canova. Venice, 1956: 14, under no. 1.

1962

  • Lauts, Jan. Carpaccio. Paintings and Drawings. Complete Edition. Greenwich, CT, 1962: 30, 267, no. 9, pl. 89.

1963

  • Pignatti, Terisio. Review of Lauts 1962, Master Drawings no. 4, 1963: 51.

1966

  • Muraro, Michelangelo. Carpaccio. Florence, 1966: 108, pls. CCXXVIII, CLIV.

1967

  • Perocco, Guido. L'opera completa del Carpaccio. Milan, 1967: 95, no. 22.

1971

  • Loan Exhibition of Drawings by Old Masters from the Collection of Mr. Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy. London, 1971: no. 18

1977

  • Muraro, Michelangelo. I disegni di Vittore Carpaccio. Florence, 1977: 36, fig. 43.

1980

  • Disegni veneti del collezioni ingelsi. Exh. cat. Neri Pozza, Venice, 1980: 27-28.

1992

  • Durer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art on Paper. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 11-12.

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper center verso in graphite: 3; by later hand and circled, lower right verso in graphite: 1[9?]

Wikidata ID

Q64633957

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