Panel with the Adoration of the Magi

c. 1525

Nicola da Urbino

Ceramist, Italian, active 1520s - c. 1537/1538

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West Building Main Floor, Gallery 25

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica)

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 22.2 x 16.8 cm (8 3/4 x 6 5/8 in.)
    overall (thickness): 1.5 cm (9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.341

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Frédéric Spitzer [1815-1890], Paris; (his estate sale, at his residence by Chevallier and Mannheim, Paris, 17 April-16 June 1893, no. 1169, as Castel Durante, sold for 1,800 francs). Maurice Kann [1839-1906], Paris; purchased 1908 with the entire Kann collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased February 1910 by Peter A.B. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[1] inheritance from the Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, 1942.
[1] Widener collection records in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1982

  • Sixteenth-Century Italian Maiolica; Selections from the Arthur M. Sackler Collection and the National Gallery of Art's Widener Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1982-1983, no. 45, repro.

Bibliography

1892

  • Molinier 1892, no. 134, as Castel Durante, c. 1540.

1935

  • Inventory of the Objects d'Art at Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania, The Estate of the Late P.A.B. Widener. Philadelphia, 1935: 63, as Faenza, c. 1520.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 14, as Faenza, about 1520.

1968

  • Wallen, Burr. "A Majollica Panel in the Widener Collection." Report and Studies in the History of Art 2 (1968): 94-105, fig. 1.

1969

  • Wallen, Burr. "A Majolica Panel in the Widener Collection." Studies in the History of Art (1968-69):94-105, repro.

1983

  • Wilson, Carolyn C. Renaissance Small Bronze Sculpture and Associated Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1983: 120, no. 1.

1993

  • Distelberger, Rudolf, Alison Luchs, Philippe Verdier, and Timonthy H. Wilson. Western Decorative Arts, Part I: Medieval, Renaissance, and Historicizing Styles including Metalwork, Enamels, and Ceramics. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1993: 194-195, color repro. 194.

Markings

Kann collection labels 6, 204; oval Spitzer sale label; older hand-written label, reading "Page 321.No 21.B."

Wikidata ID

Q62131097

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