Madonna of Humility, c. 1400

Provenance

Prince Ercolani, Bologna. Art market, Vienna. (Jacques Seligmann, Paris and New York, stock nos. 1190/7782); sold February1920 to Henry Goldman [1857-1937], New York;[1] Goldman family, until at least 1938.[2] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1960 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1920

Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1920, unnumbered catalogue.

1938

Eighteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures [cover title: Italian Sculpture 1250-1500], Detroit Institute of Arts, 1938, no. 72, repro.

1946

Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. A-157.

2010

Da Jacopo della Quercia a Donatello. Le Arti a Siena nel Primo Rinascimento, Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, 2010, no. A4, repro.

Bibliography

1945

Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 177, repro., as Madonna and Child.

1946

Frankfurter, Alfred M. Supplement to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1946: 28, repro., as Madonna and Child.

1949

L. J. Roggeveen. "De National Gallery of Art te Washington." Phoenix 4, no. 12 (December 1949): 336-337.

1949

Seymour, Charles. Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1949: 173-174, note 13, repro. 53-56.

1951

Pope-Hennessy, John. 'Review: Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art by Charles Seymour." The Burlington Magazine 93, no. 576 (March 1951): 98.

1959

Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 397, repro.

1961

Seligman, Germain. Merchants of Art: 1880-1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting. New York, 1961: repro. pl. 27.

1961

Walker, John, Guy Emerson, and Charles Seymour. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 12, repro.

1964

Eisler, Colin. Review of Seligman, Germain. Merchants of Art. New York, 1961. In Art Bulletin 46 (1964): 117.

1965

Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 165.

1968

National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 145, repro.

1976

Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 65.

1984

Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 622, no. 959, repro.

1994

Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 179, 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.

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