Saint Peter

c. 1468

Marco Zoppo

Artist, Paduan, 1433 - 1478

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West Building Main Floor, Gallery 13

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tempera on poplar panel

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 50.6 x 31.4 cm (19 15/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
    framed: 68 x 50.8 x 6.4 cm (26 3/4 x 20 x 2 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    1939.1.271

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Possibly the church of Santa Giustina, Venice, until at least 1581. Anonymous collection or dealer, London, before 1921; Henry Harris [d. 1950], London, by 1921.[1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence); sold June 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] Tancred Borenius writes in 1921 that "two or three years ago my attention was drawn by Mr. Henry Harris to a half-length figure of St. Peter discovered by him in London..." ("On a Dismembered Altarpiece by Marco Zoppo", The Burlington Magazine 38, no. 214 [January 1921]: 9-10).
[2] The bill of sale, dated 18 June 1937, was for a number of paintings and a marble relief (copy in NGA curatorial files). See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1883.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1941

  • Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 215, no. 382.

1942

  • Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 207.

1945

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 78, repro.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 124, repro.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 140.

1966

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 87-88, fig. 238.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 127, repro.

  • Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:457.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 378, repro.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:539-540; 2:pl. 376.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 441, repro.

1993

  • Giovannucci Vigi, Berenice, ed. Marco Zoppo e il suo tempo. Bologna, 1993: 13, 108 repro., 113, 172 repro.

  • Gagliardi, Jacques. La conquête de la peinture: L’Europe des ateliers du XIIIe au XVe siècle. Paris, 1993: 479.

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: 687-690, color repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20173883

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