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Vittore Carpaccio

Madonna and Child, c. 1505/1510

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 10

Medium

oil on poplar panel

Dimensions

overall: 84.8 x 68.3 cm (33 3/8 x 26 7/8 in.)

framed: 107.8 x 92.6 x 9.8 cm (42 7/16 x 36 7/16 x 3 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1961.9.8

Artists / Makers

Vittore Carpaccio (artist) Venetian, c. 1465 - 1525/1526

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Provenance

Mr. Nathan, Marseilles;[1] (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York);[2] sold February 1954 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] According to Georges Wildenstein, in a 28 November 1955 letter to John Walker (in NGA curatorial files), Mr. Nathan was the Bâtonnier de l'Ordre des Avocats in Marseilles. Wildenstein did not know where Mr. Nathan acquired the painting, and was "not sure that any of his heirs would know either."

[2] According to Kress Foundation conservation records (in NGA curatorial files), the painting was restored in Italy by G. Marchig about 1952. It is not clear if Wildenstein & Co. owned the painting at this time.

[3] The bill of sale for fourteen paintings, including NGA 1961.9.8, is dated 10 February 1954 (copy in NGA curatorial files, see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1339).

Associated Names

Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Nathan, Mr.
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.

Exhibition History

2022: Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Fondazione Musei Civici, Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 2022-2023, no. 46, repro.

Bibliography

1955: Pignatti, Terisio. Carpaccio. Milan, 1955: 109, 121, repro. no. 97.

1956: Laclotte, Michel. De Giotto à Bellini: les primitifs italiens dans les musées de France. Exh. cat. Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, 1956: 231 n. 3.

1956: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1951-56. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida and Fern Rusk Shapley. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1956: 46, no. 14, repro.

1957: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School. 2 vols. London, 1957: 1:58, pl. 430.

1957: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 34.

1958: Fiocco, Giuseppe. Carpaccio. Revised edition. Novara, 1958: 32, figs. 76-77.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 150, repro.

1960: Perocco, Guido. Tutta la pittura del Carpaccio. Milan, 1960: 69, figs. 146-147.

1960: The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 6.

1962: Lauts, Jan. Carpaccio. Paintings and Drawings. Complete Edition. Greenwich, CT, 1962: 34, 253, pls. 141, 142.

1963: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 303, repro.

1963: Zampetti, Pietro, ed. Vittore Carpaccio. Catalogo della mostra. Exh. cat. Palazzo Ducale, Venice, 1963: XXXIX.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 23.

1966: Muraro, Michelangelo. Carpaccio. Florence, 1966: CLVI, CLVII, repro.

1966: Zampetti, Pietro. Vittore Carpaccio. Florence, 1966: 76, fig. 41.

1967: Perocco, Guido. L'opera completa del Carpaccio. Milan, 1967: 69, figs. 146-147.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 16, repro.

1968: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 52-53, fig. 121.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 56, repro.

1979: Sgarbi, Vittorio. Carpaccio. Bologna, 1979: 48.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:117-118; 2:pl. 80.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 203, no. 241, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 75, repro.

1989: Valcanover, Francesco. Carpaccio. Florence, 1989: 51, fig. 61.

1991: Gentili, Augusto. “Giovanni Bellini, la bottega, i quadri di devozioni.” Venezia Cinquecento 1, no. 2 (July-December 1991): 42.

1991: Humfrey, Peter. Carpaccio: catalogo completo dei dipinti. Florence, 1991: 105, repro.

1994: Sgarbi, Vittorio. Carpaccio. Milan, 1994: 148, 149, 218, cat. 28, repro.

2003: Boskovits, Miklós, David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2003: 193-196, color repro.