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Probably Gasparo Cairano

Madonna and Child with Saints and Donors, 1490s

Not on View

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 55 x 91 cm (21 5/8 x 35 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1939.1.336

Artists / Makers

Gasparo Cairano (sculptor) Lombard, active 1489/1513 - died by 1519

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Provenance

Niccolini Collection, Florence. Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Rome and Florence. Acquired 1936 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1939 to NGA.[1]

[1]Provenance according to Ulrich Middeldorf, Complete Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Sculptures XIV-XIX Century, 1976, p. 58.

Associated Names

Contini Bonacossi, Alessandro, Count
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Niccolini

Exhibition History

1938: Eighteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: Exhibition of Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1938, no. 84.

Bibliography

1938: Ragghianti, Carlo. "La Mostra di scultura italiana antica a Detroit (U.S.A.)." Critica d'Arte 3:4–6 (fasc. 16–18) (August–December 1938): 170-183, esp. 182.

1941: Frankfurter, Alfred M. “Great Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance in the National Gallery.” Art News 40, no. 9 (1-31 July 1941): 12, repro.

1941: Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 230, no. A-40, as Madonna and Child with Saints by Pyrgoteles.

1942: Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 254, repro. 232, as Madonna and Child with Saints by Pyrgoteles.

1945: Shapley, Fern Rusk. "A Portrait of Francesco Sforza." The Art Quarterly 9 (Winter 1945): 25-39, esp. 37, 39 n.31.

1950: Dell'Acqua, Gian Alberto. "Problemi di scultura lombarda: Mantegazza e Amadeo (II)." Proporzioni 3 (1950): 123-140, esp. 136 n. 9.

1951: Valentiner, Wilhelm R. Gothic and Renaissance Sculptures in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum. Los Angeles, 1951: 102 n. 9.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 411, repro., as Madonna and Child with Saints by Pyrgoteles.

1964: Pope-Hennessy, John, assisted by Ronald Lightbown. Catalogue of Italian Sculpture in the Victoria and Albert Museum. 3 vols. London, 1964: 2:520.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 165, as Madonna and Child with Saints by Pyrgoteles.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 145, repro., as Madonna and Child with Saints by Pyrgoteles.

1976: Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 58-59, repro. figs. 101-102.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 137, repro.

2001: Zani, Vito. "Gasparo Cairano. Madonna col Bambino." In Spunti per conversare. Exh. cat. Galleria Nella Longari, Milan, 2001: 17-32, fig. 4.

2003: Zani, Vito. "Sulle nostalgie di Ambrogio Mazzola, scultore bresciano del Cinquecento." Civiltà Bresciana XII, no. 1 (March 2003): 5-24, esp. 9-11, repro.

2010: Zani, Vito. Gasparo Cairano e la scultura monumentale del Rinascimento a Brescia (1489-1517 ca.). Brescia, 2010: no. 24, fig. 165, 4, 69 n. 193, 113, 132-133