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Follower of Giovanni Bellini

Madonna and Child with Saints, c. 1490/1500

Not on View

Medium

oil on panel transferred first to canvas and then to wood

Dimensions

overall: 75.5 × 50.8 cm (29 3/4 × 20 in.)

framed: 115.57 × 88.27 × 16.51 cm (45 1/2 × 34 3/4 × 6 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1943.4.37

Artists / Makers

Anonymous Artist (painter)

Giovanni Bellini (related artist) Venetian, c. 1430/1435 - 1516

Image Use

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Inscription

by unknown hand, lower center on parapet: IOANNES BELLINVS P.

Provenance

Walter Wysard [b. 1871], Pangbourne, Buckinghamshire; purchased 1921 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold to John R. Thompson, Lake Forest, Illinois, by 1924; (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 1940 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1943 to NGA.

[1] See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1373.

Associated Names

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Thompson, John R.
Wysard, Walter

Exhibition History

1924: Loan Exhibition of Important Early Italian Paintings in the Possession of Notable American Collectors, Duveen Brothers, New York, 1924, no. 39 (no. 43, as The Virgin and Child with Saint Peter and Saint Clare in illustrated 1926 version of catalogue)

2022: Out of the Kress Vaults: Women in Sacred Renaissance Painting, Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT, 2022, no. 1.2

Bibliography

1941: Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 86, repro., as The Madonna and Child with St. Peter and St. Clara by Giovanni Bellini.

1941: Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 22, no. 538.

1942: Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 250, repro. 71.

1945: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 92, repro.

1951: Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 74-78, repro.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 136, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 12.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 4, repro.

1968: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 44-45, fig. 107.

1972: Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 23, 646, as Workshop of Giovanni Bellini.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 22, repro.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:58; 2:pl. 33.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 203, no. 243, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 42, repro.

1992: Tempestini, Anchise. Giovanni Bellini: catalogo completo dei dipinti. Florence, 1992: 178, no. 61, repro.

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: 84-87, color repro.

2014: Chiodo, Sonia, and Serena Padovani, eds. The Alana Collection, Newark, Delaware, USA. Vol. III: Italian Paintings from the 14th to 16th Century. Florence, 2014: 276 n. 11, as Madonna and Child with Saints Peter and Margaret, by the Workshop of Giovanni Bellini.

2019: Lucco, Mauro, Peter Humfrey, and Giovanni C.F. Villa. Giovanni Bellini: Catalogo ragionato. Treviso, 2019: 474-475, cat. 113, as Workshop of Giovanni Bellini.