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Francesco Benaglio

Madonna and Child, late 1460s

Not on View

Medium

tempera on panel transferred to canvas

Dimensions

overall: 80.7 x 56.2 cm (31 3/4 x 22 1/8 in.)

framed: 106.4 x 81.6 x 5.7 cm (41 7/8 x 32 1/8 x 2 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Accession Number

1942.9.44

Artists / Makers

Francesco Benaglio (painter) Veronese, c. 1432 - 1492

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Provenance

Art market, Florence, in or shortly after 1900;[1] (Leo Nardus [1868-1955], Suresnes, France, and New York); purchased 1905 by Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[2] inheritance from estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.

[1] On the back of a photograph of the painting (in the archives of the Biblioteca Berenson, Harvard University Center for the Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence) is a note in Bernard Berenson's handwriting: "With Dom. Morone, given me some 25 ys. ago by Langton Douglas, the original then for sale in Florence." The note is not dated, but it is probably from the mid-1920s, when Berenson was preparing his study on Domenico Morone. Langton Douglas, who either intended to buy the painting himself or acted as an intermediary, was frequently in Florence in the early 1900s; see Dennis Sutton, "Robert Langton Douglas," Apollo 109 (1979): 248-315.

[2] Bernard Berenson and William Roberts, Pictures in the Collection of P.A.B. Widener at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsvylania. Volume III: Early Italian and Spanish Schools, Philadelphia, 1916: no. 23.

Associated Names

Nardus, Leo
Widener, Joseph E.
Widener, Peter Arrell Brown

Bibliography

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1908: "P.A.B. Widener Collection, February 1st, 1908." Typescript, 2 vols. Library, National Gallery of Art, 1908: 120, as by "Francesca (Piero de la)" [sic Piero della Francesca].

1916: Berenson, Bernard, and William Roberts. Pictures in the Collection of P.A.B. Widener at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania: Early Italian and Spanish Schools. Philadelphia, 1916: unpaginated, repro., as by Veronese Follower of Mantegna.

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1932: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932: 377, as by Domenico Morone.

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1992: Partsch, Susanna. “Benaglio, Francesco.” In Allgemeines Künsler-Lexicon: Die bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. 119 vols. Munich and Leipzig, 1992-2023: 8(1994):589, 590.

1993: Gagliardi, Jacques. La conquête de la peinture: L’Europe des ateliers du XIIIe au XVe siècle. Paris, 1993: 757.

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2001: Levi d’Ancona, Mirella. Lo zoo del Rinascimento. Il significato degli animali nella pittura italiana dal XIV al XVI secolo. Lucca, 2001: 164.

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2003: Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 96-101, color repro.

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