Madonna and Child in a Landscape
c. 1490/1500
Artist
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on panel
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 74.2 x 58.3 cm (29 3/16 x 22 15/16 in.)
framed: 110.8 x 88.6 cm (43 5/8 x 34 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1939.1.262
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Otto Wesendonk [1815-1896], Berlin; his heirs; lent 1909 to the city of Bonn;[1] returned to Wesendonk heirs; (Wesendonk sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 27 November 1935, no. 4). (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); March sold 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] The painting was lent by the city of Bonn to the Provinzialmuseum, Bonn, from 1909 until 1935, and published in the museum's catalogue as number 6.
[2] The Duveen Brothers letter confirming the sale of twenty-four paintings, including NGA 1939.1.262, is dated 9 March 1937; the provenance is given as "Wesendonck[sic] Collection" (copy in NGA curatorial files; Box 474, Folder 5, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles). See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1357.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1906
Loan for display with permanent collection, Provinzialmuseum, Bonn, 1909-1935.
Bibliography
1914
Rheinisches Landesmuseum Bonn. Katalog der Gemäldegalerie: Vorwiegend Sammlung Wesendonk. Bonn, 1914, no. 9, repro.
1941
Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 88, repro., as by Giovanni Bellini.
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 21, no. 373, as by Giovanni Bellini.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 70, as by Giovanni Bellini.
1944
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 46, repro., as by Giovanni Bellini.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 93, repro., as by Giovanni Bellini.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 137, repro., as by Giovanni Bellini.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 11, as by Giovanni Bellini.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 4, repro., as by Giovanni Bellini.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 44, fig. 103.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 23, 646.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 22, repro., as by Giovanni Bellini and Assistant.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:55-56; 2:pl. 31, as by Giovanni Bellini and Assistant.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 43, repro.
1998
Tempestini, Anchise. Bellini e Belliniani in Romagna. Florence, 1998: 94.
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: 80-83, color repro.
2008
Lucco, Mauro, and Giovanni Carlo Federico Villa, eds. Giovanni Bellini. Exh. cat. Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2008: 234.
2023
Hochmann, Michel. “Giovanni Bellini et le métier de peintre à Venise.” In Neville Rowley, ed. Giovanni Bellini: Influences croisées. Exh. cat. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 2023: 33.
Inscriptions
by unknown hand, lower center on parapet: JOANNES . BELLINVS .
Wikidata ID
Q20174504