The Adoration of the Christ Child

c. 1440/1445

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    tempera on poplar panel

  • Credit Line

    Timken Collection

  • Dimensions

    painted surface: 47 x 35 cm (18 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.)
    overall: 48 x 36.2 cm (18 7/8 x 14 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1960.6.25

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mr. Banti, Florence, early 20th century.[1] Raoul Tolentino, Florence; (his sale, American Art Association, New York, 21-27 April 1920, no. 884). William R. Timken [1866-1949], New York; by inheritance to his widow, Lillian Guyer Timken [1881-1959], New York; bequest 1960 to NGA.
[1] According to a handwritten note on the back of an old photograph of the painting, conserved in the Biblioteca Berenson at I Tatti, Florence, the panel was "formerly the property of Mr. Banti, Via delle Ruote, Florence." Miklòs Boskovits suspects that "Mr. Banti" was L.M. Banti, whose collection was sold in Florence by Cesare Galardelli on 14-16 April 1926. However, the 1920 Tolentino auction indicates that if the painting did belong to L.M. Banti, it left his collection well before its sale. Furthermore, the only Nativity in the rather carelessly compiled Banti sale catalogue (cat. 30, listed without measurements and attribution) is said to have been painted on canvas.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 153, repro.

2003

  • Boskovits, Miklós, David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2003: 139-141, color repro.

2006

  • Fahy, Everett. "Early Italian paintings in Washington and Philadelphia." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1241 (August 2006): 539 n. 5, as by the Master of the Johnson Tabernacle.

Wikidata ID

Q20173593

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