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

1500/1510

Vittore Carpaccio

Artist, Venetian, c. 1465 - 1525/1526

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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

    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

  • 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.

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

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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