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Luca della Robbia

The Nativity, c. 1460

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 9

Medium

glazed terracotta

Dimensions

overall: 56.5 x 47.9 cm (22 1/4 x 18 7/8 in.)

framed: 106.7 x 68.6 x 12.1 cm (42 x 27 x 4 3/4 in.)
framed weight: 31.752 kg (70 lb.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1961.1.3

Artists / Makers

Luca della Robbia (artist) Italian, Florentine, 1400 - 1482

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Provenance

Art market, Paris. Otto Kahn [1867-1934], New York, by at least 1912. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); purchased 1946 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] See original Duveen prospectus in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Art market, Paris
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kahn, Otto H.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.

Exhibition History

1946: Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. A-162.

2016: Della Robbia: Sculpting with Color in Renaissance Florence, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2016-2017, no. 21, repro.

Bibliography

1892: Bode, Wilhelm von. Denkmäler der Renaissance-Sculptur Toscanas in historischer Anordung. 17 vols. plates; 1 vol. text . Munich, 1892-1905: 177, 228, repro. plate 548b.

1910: Bode, Wilhelm von. “Neuentdeckte Bildwerke in glasiertem Ton von Luca della Robbia.” Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst 45 (1910): 305-307, repro.307.

1912: Bode, Wilhelm von. “Luca della Robbia und sein neuester Biograph.” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 2 (1912-1917): 71-80, esp. 75.

1912: Marquand, Allan. Della Robbias in America. Princeton, 1912: 16-19, no. 5, repro. fig. 7.

1914: Marquand, Allan. Luca della Robbia. Princeton, 1914: 221-222, no. 62, repro. fig. 45.

1918: "G.” “The Quincy Adams Shaw Collection.” Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts XVI, no. 94 (April 1918): 11-27, esp. 22-24.

1921: Bode, Wilhelm von. Florentiner Bildhauer der Renaissance. 4th ed. Berlin, 1921: 156.

1928: Bode, Wilhelm von. Florentine Sculptors of the Renaissance. Translated by Jessie Haynes. Rev. 2nd ed. London, 1928: 156. (Reprint, New York, 1969).

1946: Douglas, Robert Langton. "Recent Additions to the Kress Collection." The Burlington Magazine 88 (1946): 81-82

1946: Eggen, J. B. “La galerie nationale d’art, Washington.” Mouseion 57/58, nos. 3-4 (1946): 1-168, esp. 98.

1949: Galassi, Guiseppe. La scultura fiorentina del quattrocento. Milan, 1949: 123, repro. pl. 145.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 408, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 167.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 146, repro.

1976: Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 35.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 198, repro.