Kneeling Angel

1470/1480

Giovanni Antonio Amadeo

Artist, Lombard, c. 1447 - 1522

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On View

West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G17

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    marble

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 46.5 x 42.9 x 9.5 cm (18 5/16 x 16 7/8 x 3 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1939.1.320

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Barsanti, Rome. (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Rome); sold October 1927 to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955], New York;[1] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] The bill of sale for paintings, maiolica, furniture, antique velvets, and several sculptures, including "2 Marble Angels by G.A. Amadeo," is dated 5 October 1927 (copy in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1935

  • Sculptures of the Italian Renaissance, A.S. Drey Galleries, New York, 1935, no.39.

1988

  • The Sforza Court: Milan in the Renaissance 1450-1535, Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, The University of Texas at Austin; University Art Museum, Univ. of Cal. at Berkeley; Yale Univ., New Haven, 1988-1989, no. 62 (shown only in Austin).

Bibliography

1941

  • Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 218, no. A-24.

1942

  • Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 253, repro. 224.

1945

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 195, repro.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 417, repro.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 145.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 129, repro.

1976

  • Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 54.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 21, 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.

Wikidata ID

Q63809481

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