Madonna and Child

c. 1475/1478

Antonio Rossellino

Artist, Florentine, 1427 - 1479

Antonio Rossellino

Attributed to

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 5

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    marble

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 84 x 56 cm (33 1/16 x 22 1/16 in.)
    framed: 115.6 x 86.4 x 12.7 cm (45 1/2 x 34 x 5 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1939.1.327

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Acquired in the 18th century by a member of the Granby family; by descent in the family to John Henry Montagu Manners, 9th duke of Rutland and marquess of Granby [1886-1940]; (sale, Christie's, London, 16 July 1925, no. 76); Huggins.[1] Clarence H. Mackay [1874-1938], Roslyn, New York, by 1926;[2] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); purchased 1936 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] According to an annotated copy of Christie's sale catalogue, copy in NGA curatorial files.
[2] Wilhelm R. Valentiner, The Clarence H. Mackay Collection, New York, 1926: no.12.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2007

  • Desiderio da Settignano: Sculptor of Renaissance Florence, Musée du Louvre, Paris; Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006-2007, not in cat. (shown only in Washington).

Bibliography

1926

  • Valentiner, W.R. The Clarence H. Mackay Collection. New York, 1926: no. 12, repro.

1941

  • Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 234, no. A-31, pl. XVI.

1942

  • Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 254, repro. 235.

1943

  • Swarzenski, Georg. "Some Aspects of Italian Quattrocento Sculpture in the National Gallery." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th series, 24 (November 1943): 292 fig. 8 (detail), 292-293.

1944

  • Duveen Brothers, Inc. Duveen Sculpture in Public Collections of America: A Catalog Raisonné with illustrations of Italian Renaissance Sculptures by the Great Masters which have passed through the House of Duveen. New York, 1944: figs. 95-101.

  • Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 12, repro.

1945

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 181, repro.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 399, repro.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 170

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 150, repro.

1976

  • Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 22.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 626, no. 969, repro.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 211, repro.

2013

  • Langhanke, Birgit. Die Madonnenreliefs im Werk von Antonio Rossellino. Ph.D. diss. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 2013: 100, 178, 206, 241-250, 257, 365-6, repro. 168, fig. 74.

Inscriptions

lower center in garland: y h s (with omega above the "s", the left "tail" of which forms a cross with the upright member of the "h")

Wikidata ID

Q63809212

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