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Florentine 19th Century, after Gregorio di Lorenzo (Master of the Marble Madonnas)

Madonna and Child, c. 1860/1900

Not on View

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 88.1 x 64.3 x 21.3 cm (34 11/16 x 25 5/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1960.5.9

Artists / Makers

Florentine 19th Century (sculptor)

Gregorio di Lorenzo (Master of the Marble Madonnas) (artist after) Florentine, c. 1436 - c. 1504

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Provenance

Conte Bombicci-Pontelli, Florence. Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Florence and Rome. Acquired 1948 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1960 to NGA.[1]

[1]Provenance according to Ulrich Middeldorf, Complete Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Sculptures XIV-XIX Century, 1976, p. 29.

Associated Names

Bombicci-Pontelli, Comte
Contini Bonacossi, Alessandro, Count
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.

Bibliography

1956: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 226, no. 90, repro., as by Tommaso Fiamberti.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 410, repro., as by Tommaso Fiamberti.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 154, as by Fiamberti.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 137, repro., as by Fiamberti.

1976: Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 29.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 89, repro.

1999: Norman Herz, Katherine A. Holbrow and Shelley G. Sturman. "Marble Sculture in the National Gallery of Art: a Provenance Study." In Max Schvoerer, ed. Archéomatériaux: marbres et autres roches: ASMOSIA IV, Bordeaux, France 9-13 october 1995: actes de la IVème Conférence international de l’Association pour l’étude des marbres et autres roches utilizes dans le passé. Talence, 1999: 101-110.

2010: Bellandi, Alfredo. Gregorio di Lorenzo: Il Maestro delle Madonne di Marmo. Morbio Inferiore, 2010: 69, 80 fig. 73, 333, 334, no. III.1.47, 354.