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Marco Zoppo or Imitator

Madonna and Child, c. 1467/1468

Not on View

Medium

tempera on poplar panel

Dimensions

painted surface: 41.2 x 29.8 cm (16 1/4 x 11 3/4 in.)
overall (with engaged frame): 47 x 35.7 cm (18 1/2 x 14 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1961.9.51

Artists / Makers

Marco Zoppo (painter) Paduan, 1433 - 1478

Anonymous Artist (painter)

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Inscription

lower center on parapet: MARCO.ZOPPO.DA BOLOGNA / OPVS; hanging over the parapet, a coat of arms with an oval divided vertically in azure and white within a pink concave shield

Provenance

Ascoli, Bologna; purchased November 1880 by Sir John Charles Robinson [1824-1913], London; sold February 1882 to Sir Francis Cook, 1st bt. [1817-1901], Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey;[1] by inheritance to his son, Sir Frederick Lucas Cook, 2nd bt. [1844-1920], Doughty House; by inheritance to his son, Sir Herbert Frederick Cook, 3rd bt. [1868-1939], Doughty House; by inheritance to his son, Sir Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 4th bt. [1907-1978], Doughty House, and Cothay Manor, Somerset; sold December 1953 to (Margaret Drey, London);[2] (Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., New York); sold 29 January 1954 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] Robinson's handwritten account book listing his sales of paintings between 1874 and 1907 (Department of Western Art Archive, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) contains an entry (no. 241) for a Zoppo Madonna and Child bought "of Ascoli at Bologna Nov[ember] 1880 - came from Modena," which was sold to Francis Cook on 10 February 1882. (A copy of the relevant page is in NGA curatorial files.)

[2] According to correspondence with the keeper of the Cook collection (copies in NGA curatorial files, from the Cook Collection Archive in care of John Somerville, England).

[3] Letters from Saemy Rosenberg of 29 and 30 January 1954 to Guy Emerson and John Walker, respectively (copies in NGA curatorial files, see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1341).

Associated Names

Ascoli
Cook, 1st bt., Francis, Sir
Cook, 2nd bt., Frederick Lucas, Sir
Cook, 3rd bt., Herbert Frederick, Sir
Cook, 4th bt., Francis Ferdinand Maurice, Sir
Drey, Francis A.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Robinson, John Charles, Sir
Stiebel, Ltd.

Exhibition History

1894: Exhibition of Pictures, Drawings & Photographs of Works of the School of Ferrara-Bologna, 1440-1540, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1894, no. 4, repro.

1946: Loan Exhibition of the Cook Collection of Primitive and Early Renaissance Paintings (1350-1550); venues: municipal art galleries of Norwich, Sheffield, Leicester, Blackpool, Manchester, Southampton, Brighton; tour by Art Exh. Bureau, 1946-1947, no. 20.

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: 206, no. 82, repro.

1957: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 13.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 125, repro.

1961: Walker, John, Guy Emerson, and Charles Seymour. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 48, repro. pl. 46.

1963: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 301, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 140.

1966: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 87, fig. 237.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 127, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 378, repro.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:540-542; 2:pl. 377.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 442, repro.

1993: Giovannucci Vigi, Berenice, ed. Marco Zoppo e il suo tempo. Bologna, 1993: 13, 16, 80, 109, 111 repro., 112, 126, 129, 168 repro., 169 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: 691-699, color repro.