Inscription
upper center on the Madonna's halo: AVE.GRATIA PLENA.DO[MINVS TECVM] (Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; from Luke 1:28)
Provenance
Possibly George Ashburnham, 3rd earl of Ashburnham [1760-1830], Florence and Ashburnham Place, Battle, Sussex; by inheritance to his son, Bertram Ashburnham, 4th earl of Ashburnham [1797-1878], Ashburnham Place;[1] by inheritance to his son, Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham [1840-1913], Ashburnham Place; by inheritance to his daughter, Lady Mary Catherine Charlotte Ashburnham [d. 1953], Ashburnham Place; (Robert Langton Douglas [1864-1951], London);[2] sold August 1919 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[3] sold 1922 to Clarence H. Mackay [1874-1938], Roslyn, New York, until c. 1930;[4] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[5] sold 1938 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[6] gift 1939 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1924
- Loan Exhibition of Important Early Italian Paintings in the Possession of Notable American Collectors, Duveen Brothers, New York, 1924, no. 21 (no. 30 in illustrated 1926 verion of catalogue).
- 1933
- The Sixteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters. Italian Paintings of the XIV to XVI Century, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1933, no. 60.
- 1988
- Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988-1989, no. 48, repro., as Madonna and Child with Saints Jerome and Catherine of Alexandria and Two Angels (cat. by K. Christiansen, L.B. Kanter and C.B.Strehlke).
Bibliography
- 1923
- Marle, Raimond van. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. 19 vols. The Hague, 1923-1938: 16(1937):358-359, 361, repro.
- 1924
- Offner, Richard. “A Remarkable Exhibition of Italian Paintings.” The Arts 5, no. 5 (May 1924): 257.
- 1925
- Valentiner, Wilhelm R. “The Clarence H. Mackay Collection.” International Studio 81, no. 339 (August 1925): 335, 343, 344, repro.
- 1926
- Valentiner, Wilhelm R. The Clarence H. Mackay Collection. New York, 1926: 4, no. 5, repro.
- 1929
- Cortissoz, Royal. "The Clarence H. Mackay Collection." International Studio 94 (1929): 33.
- 1929
- Singleton, Esther. Old World Masters in New World Collections. New York, 1929: 9-12.
- 1932
- Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932: 351.
- 1936
- Berenson, Bernard. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936: 302.
- 1941
- Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 94, repro.
- 1941
- Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 131, no. 408.
- 1941
- Richter, George Martin. "The New National Gallery in Washington." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 78 (June 1941): 178.
- 1942
- Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 152.
- 1944
- Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 22, repro.
- 1945
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 48, repro.
- 1949
- Brandi, Cesare. Quattrocentisti senesi. Milan, 1949: 268.
- 1959
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 83, repro.
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 89.
- 1968
- Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:261.
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 78, repro.
- 1972
- Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 139, 646.
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 230, repro.
- 1979
- Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:329-230; 2:pl. 238.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 266, repro.
- 1987
- Trimpi, Erica S. "Matteo di Giovanni: Documents and a Critical Catalogue of his Panel Paintings." Ph.D. diss. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1987: 236-238.
- 1989
- Hood, William. "Sienese Quattrocento Painting. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York." The Burlington Magazine 131 (1989): 243.
- 1993
- Angelini, Alessandro. "Matteo di Giovanni." In Luciano Bellosi, ed. Francesco di Giorgio e il Rinasicmento a Siena 1450-1500. Exh. cat. Chiesa di Sant'Agostino, Siena, 1993: 526.
- 1993
- Gagliardi, Jacques. La conquête de la peinture: L’Europe des ateliers du XIIIe au XVe siècle. Paris, 1993: 545.
- 2002
- Dabell, Frank. “La fortuna di Matteo di Giovanni tra Inghliterra e Stati Uniti dall’Otto e Novecento.” In Davide Gasparotto and Serena Magnani, eds. Matteo di Giovanni e la pala d’altare nel senese e nell’aretino 1450-1500. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Sansepolcro, 9-10 Ottobre 1998). Montepulciano, 2002: 18.
- 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: 509-512, color repro.
- 2006
- Angelini, Alessandro. “Matteo di Giovanni: percorso esemplare di un quattrocentista senese.” In Cecilia Alessi and Alessandro Bagnoli, eds. Matteo di Giovanni: Cronaca di una strage dipinta. Exh. cat. Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, 2006: 18.
- 2016
- Bacchi, Andrea, and Andrea De Marchi, eds. La Galleria di Palazzo Cini. Dipinti, sculture, oggetti d'arte. Venice, 2016: 125.
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