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Andrea Solario

Lamentation, c. 1505-1507

Not on View

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

overall: 168.6 x 152 cm (66 3/8 x 59 13/16 in.)

framed: 201.3 x 184.8 x 11.4 cm (79 1/4 x 72 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1961.9.40

Artists / Makers

Andrea Solario (artist) Milanese, active 1495 - 1524

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Inscription

lower right on cartello in nearly effaced letters: ANDREAS...

Provenance

Baron Kinnaird, Rossie Priory, Inchture, Perthshire, Scotland. Probably purchased 1935 in England by Longhi; sold that same year to (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence);[1] sold 1954 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] According to Kress records in NGA curatorial files.

[2] On 7 June 1954 the Kress Foundation made an offer to Contini Bonacossi for sixteen paintings, including the NGA painting which was listed as Altarpiece Deposition by Solario. In a draft of one of the documents prepared for the Count's signature in connection with the offer, this painting is described as one "which came from my personal collection in Florence." The Count accepted the offer on 30 June 1954; the final payment for the purchase was ultimately made in early 1957, after the Count's death in 1955. (See copies of correspondence in NGA curatorial files and The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1211.)

Associated Names

Contini Bonacossi, Alessandro, Count
Kinnaird, Lord
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Longhi

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: 170, no. 67, repro., as Pietà.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 175, repro., as Pietà.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 124, as Pietà.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 111, repro., as Pietà.

1968: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 139, fig. 332.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 330, repro., as Pietà.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:435-436; 2:pl. 315, as Pietà.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 100, no. 68, color repro., as Pietà.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 378, repro., as Pietà.

1988: Wheeler, Marion, ed. His Face: Images of Christ in Art: Selections from the King James Version of the Bible. New York, 1988: 127, no. 98, color repro.

2004: Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 98, no. 72, color repro.

2005: Sander, Jochen. Hans Holbein D.J. Tafelmaler in Basel 1515-1532. Munich, 2005: 223, nt. 146.

2022: Brown, David Alan. Overshadowed--Leonardo da Vinci and Bernardino Luini. Milan, 2022: 27-28, color fig. 14, 65 note 40.