Madonna and Child
c. 1475
Artist, Venetian, c. 1430/1432 - c. 1491 or c. 1499
West Building Main Floor, Gallery 13
Artwork overview
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Medium
tempera on poplar panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
painted surface: 53 x 41.5 cm (20 7/8 x 16 5/16 in.)
overall (area once covered by engaged frame): 54.4 x 42.6 cm (21 7/16 x 16 3/4 in.)
framed: 72.39 x 60.01 x 5.08 cm (28 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 2 in.) -
Accession
1939.1.118
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Sir Edward Smithson, Surrey; (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence); sold 23 June 1933 to the Samuel H. Kress Collection, New York;[1] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] The bill of sale was for a total of ten paintings (copy in NGA curatorial files). See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1323.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1938
Exhibition of Venetian Painting From the Fifteenth Century through the Eighteenth Century, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, June-July 1938, no. 76, repro.
Special Exhibition of Venetian Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Seattle Art Museum; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama, August-October 1938, no catalogue.
Bibliography
1923
Marle, Raimond van. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. 19 vols. The Hague, 1923-1938: 18(1936):131.
1938
Frankfurter, Alfred M. “The Great Venetians: Paintings in American Collections.” Art News 36, no. 29 (16 July 1938): 89.
Frankfurter, Alfred M. “The Venetians in California.” Art News 36 (16 July 1938): 8.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 212, no. 229.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 244, repro. 207.
1944
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: repro. no. 87
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 88, repro.
1946
Longhi, Roberto. Viatico per cinque secoli di pittura veneziana. Florence, 1946: 57, pl. 50.
1954
Godfrey, Frederick M. Early Italian Painters, 1415-1495. London, 1954: 17, pl. 27.
1957
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Venetian School. 2 vols. London, 1957: 1:203.
1958
Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis. La Peinture vénitienne. Paris, 1958: pl. 44.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 135, repro.
1961
Pallucchini, Rodolfo. I Vivarini (Antonio, Bartolomeo, Alvise). Venice, 1961: 44-45, 123, pl. 174.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 136.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 124, repro.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 32-33, fig. 73.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 212, 320.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 368, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:539; 2:pl. 375.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 427, repro.
1988
Pallucchini, Rodolfo. “Una ‘Madonna’ inedita di Bartolomeo Vivarini.” Arte Veneta 42 (1988): 136.
1993
Gagliardi, Jacques. La conquête de la peinture: L’Europe des ateliers du XIIIe au XVe siècle. Paris, 1993: 562.
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: 683-685, color repro.
2023
Müller, Rebecca. Die Vivarini: Bildproduktion in Venedig 1440 bis 1505. Regensburg, 2023: 136, 345, 381 n. 230, 383-384, 471-472, fig. 72.
Wikidata ID
Q20174192