Madonna and Child with Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist

c. 1535

Jacopino del Conte

Artist, Florentine, 1510 - 1598

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 21

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on panel

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 161.3 x 119 x 2.9 cm (63 1/2 x 46 7/8 x 1 1/8 in.)
    framed: 189.2 x 147 x 8.8 cm (74 1/2 x 57 7/8 x 3 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1985.11.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Florence and Rome, by the late 1920s;[1] by inheritance to Count Alessandro Augusto Contini Bonacossi and his siblings; (Stanley Moss and Co., New York and Riverdale-on-Hudson), by at least 1974;[2] sold 21 February 1985 to NGA.
[1] Provenance according to S.J. Freedberg, "Jacopino del Conte: An Early Masterpiece for the National Gallery of Art", Studies in the History of Art, 18 (1985): 65. See also the letter of 16 December 1984 from Stanley Moss to Sydney J. Freedberg (copy in NGA curatorial files). The painting was one of those released for export under the convention made between the Contini heirs and the Italian government on 21 May 1968.
[2] Stanley Moss sent a transparency of the painting to the Gallery in 1974 (see his letter of 23 April 1974 to Sheldon Grossman, in NGA curatorial files).

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1940

  • Mostra del '500 toscano, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 1940.

1983

  • Loan to display with permanent collection, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, 1983.

Bibliography

1985

  • Freedberg, S.J. "Jacopino del Conte: An Early Masterpiece for the National Gallery of Art." Studies in the History of Art 18 (1985): 59-65, repro.

1986

  • National Gallery of Art. 1985 Annual Report. Washington, D.C., 1986: 19, repro. 20, 47.

1995

  • Conti, Alessandro. Pontormo. Milan, 1995: 49, fig. 76.

2004

  • Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 98-99, no. 74, color repro.

2013

  • Geremicca, Antonio. "Da Andrea del Sarto a Michelangelo. Note a Jacopino del Conte e approfondimenti sulla sua attività giovanile." Proporzioni nos. 8-9 (2012-2013): 95, 98 n. 24, figs. 20, 22.

2017

  • Schumacher, Andreas, ed. Florentiner Malerei. Alte Pinakothek: Die Gemälde des 14. bis 16. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 2017: 584, fig. 43.2.

2020

  • Zaninelli, Fulvia. "The Interesting Case of Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878-1955) and Wilhelm von Bode (1845-1929)." In Florence, Berlin and Beyond. Late Nineteenth-Century Art Markets and Their Social Networks, ed. Lynn Catterson. Leiden, Boston, 2020: 278, fig. 8.4

Wikidata ID

Q20176118

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