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Bartolomeo Montagna

Madonna and Child, c. 1490

Not on View

Medium

oil on poplar panel

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.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1939.1.29

Artists / Makers

Bartolomeo Montagna (artist) Italian, c. 1450/1454 - 1523

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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

Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Thomas
Agnew and Ansdell, C.M.
Contini Bonacossi, Alessandro, Count
Curzon, 14th baron Zouche, Robert
Curzon, 15th baron Zouche, Robert Nathaniel Cecil George
Curzon, Baroness Zouche, Darea
Frankland, Baroness Zouche, Mary Cecil
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.

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.

1962: Puppi, Lionello. Bartolomeo Montagna. Venice, 1962: 43, 140-141, pl. 31.

1962: Puppi, Lionello. “Cima e Bartolomeo Montagna.” La Provincia di Treviso 5 (1962): 16.

1962: Romanini, Angiola Maria. “Una Madonna di Bartolomeo Montagna.” Commentari 12 (1962): 42-43.

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.

1968: 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: Longhi, Roberto. Disegno della pittura italiana. 2 vols. Florence, 1979: 1:pl.228.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:334-335; 2:pl. 243.

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.