Madonna and Child
c. 1490
Artist, Italian, c. 1450/1454 - 1523
Bartolomeo Montagna
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on poplar panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 56.2 x 45.7 cm (22 1/8 x 18 in.)
framed: 75.3 x 65.7 cm (29 5/8 x 25 7/8 in.) -
Accession Number
1939.1.29
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Probably purchased in Italy by Robert Curzon, later 14th baron Zouche [1810-1873], Pelham Park, Pulborough, Sussex; by inheritance to his son, Robert Nathaniel Cecil George Curzon, 15th baron Zouche [1851-1914], Pelham Park; by inheritance to the latter's sister, Darea Curzon, Baroness Zouche [1860-1917]; by inheritance to her cousin, Mary Cecil Frankland, Baroness Zouche [1875-1937]; sold 1920 to (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London); sold 1924 to (C. Morland Agnew and Ansdell, London).[1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Rome); purchased October 1929 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] "Purchased in Italy by Robert Curzon, afterward Lord Zouche," according to Agnew's stock book, no. 5905; information provided by the Getty Provenance Index.
[2] The bill of sale was for four paintings, a marble plaque, and a piece of Gothic velvet (copy in NGA curatorial files. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1322).
Associated Names
Bibliography
1913
The Arundel Club for the Publication of Reproductions of Works of Art in Private Collections and Elsewhere. London, 1913: no. 4.
1916
Berenson, Bernard. _Venetian Painting in America _. New York, 1916: 176.
1932
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932: 368.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 134, no. 140.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 242, repro. 154.
1946
Longhi, Roberto. Viatico per cinque secoli di pittura veneziana. Florence, 1946: 60, pl. 75.
1957
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Venetian School. 2 vols. London, 1957: 1:118.
1962
Heinemann, Fritz. Giovanni Bellini e i belliniani. 2 vols. Venice, 1962: 1:261.
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1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 93.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 82, repro.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 57, fig. 135.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 244, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:334-335; 2:pl. 243.
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1981
Menegazzi, Luigi. Cima da Conegliano. Treviso, 1981: 10.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 283, repro.
1991
Heinemann, Fritz. Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani, Vol. III. Supplemento e Ampliamenti. Hildesheim, 1991: 90.
1995
Nielsen, Kai-Uwe. “Bartolomeo Montagna und die Venezianische Malerei des Späten Quattrocento.” Ph.D. diss., Ludwig-Maximillans Univeristät, Munich, 1995: 182-183.
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: 526-529, color repro.
2014
Lucco, Mauro. Bartolomeo Cincani detto Montagna. Dipinti. Treviso, 2014: 58, 327-328, pl. 45, cat. 45.
2020
Zaninelli, Fulvia. "The Interesting Case of Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878-1955) and Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929)." In Florence, Berlin and Beyond. Late Nineteenth-Century Art Markets and Their Social Networks, ed. Lynn Catterson. Leiden, Boston, 2020: 290.
Wikidata ID
Q20174492