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Bartolomeo Vivarini

Madonna and Child, c. 1475

Medium

tempera on poplar panel

Dimensions

painted surface: 53 x 41.5 cm (20 7/8 x 16 5/16 in.)
overall (area once covered by engaged frame): 54.4 x 42.6 cm (21 7/16 x 16 3/4 in.)

framed: 72.39 x 60.01 x 5.08 cm (28 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 2 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1939.1.118

Artists / Makers

Bartolomeo Vivarini (artist) Venetian, c. 1430/1432 - c. 1491 or c. 1499

Image Use

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Provenance

Sir Edward Smithson, Surrey; (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence); sold 23 June 1933 to the Samuel H. Kress Collection, New York;[1] gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] The bill of sale was for a total of ten paintings (copy in NGA curatorial files). See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1323.

Associated Names

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

Exhibition History

1938: Exhibition of Venetian Painting From the Fifteenth Century through the Eighteenth Century, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, June-July 1938, no. 76, repro.

1938: Special Exhibition of Venetian Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Seattle Art Museum; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama, August-October 1938, no catalogue.

Bibliography

1923: Marle, Raimond van. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. 19 vols. The Hague, 1923-1938: 18(1936):131.

1938: Frankfurter, Alfred M. “The Great Venetians: Paintings in American Collections.” Art News 36, no. 29 (16 July 1938): 89.

1938: Frankfurter, Alfred M. “The Venetians in California.” Art News 36 (16 July 1938): 8.

1941: Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 212, no. 229.

1942: Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 244, repro. 207.

1944: Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: repro. no. 87

1945: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 88, repro.

1946: Longhi, Roberto. Viatico per cinque secoli di pittura veneziana. Florence, 1946: 57, pl. 50.

1954: Godfrey, Frederick M. Early Italian Painters, 1415-1495. London, 1954: 17, pl. 27.

1957: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Venetian School. 2 vols. London, 1957: 1:203.

1958: Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis. La Peinture vénitienne. Paris, 1958: pl. 44.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 135, repro.

1961: Pallucchini, Rodolfo. I Vivarini (Antonio, Bartolomeo, Alvise). Venice, 1961: 44-45, 123, pl. 174.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 136.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 124, repro.

1968: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 32-33, fig. 73.

1972: Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 212, 320.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 368, repro.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:539; 2:pl. 375.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 427, repro.

1988: Pallucchini, Rodolfo. “Una ‘Madonna’ inedita di Bartolomeo Vivarini.” Arte Veneta 42 (1988): 136.

2003: Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 683-685, color repro.

2023: Müller, Rebecca. Die Vivarini: Bildproduktion in Venedig 1440 bis 1505. Regensburg, 2023: 136, 345, 381 n. 230, 383-384, 471-472, fig. 72.