Madonna and Child, c. 1505/1510

Provenance

Probably John Smith-Barry [b. 1725], Marbury Hall, Northwich, Cheshire;[1] by inheritance to his son, James Hugh Smith-Barry [1748/1749-1801], Marbury Hall; by inheritance to his illegitimate son, John Smith-Barry [1793-1837], Marbury Hall; by inheritance to his son, James Hugh Smith-Barry [1816-1856], Marbury Hall; by inheritance to his son, Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry, 1st [and last] baron Barrymore [1843-1925], Marbury Hall; (his estate sale, Sotheby's, London, 21 June 1933, no. 89, as by Mantegna); acquired by Borenius for (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[2] sold March 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1939 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1909

National Loan Exhibition, Grafton Galleries, London, 1909-1910, no. 88.

2008

Correggio e l'antico, Museo Galleria di Villa Borghese, Rome, 2008, no. 1, repro.

2008

Mantegna, 1431-1506, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2008-2009, no. 185, repro., as by Correggio.

2016

Correggio e Parmigianino: Arte a Parma nel Cinquecento, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2016, no. 1, repro., as by Correggio.

2022

Out of the Kress Vaults: Women in Sacred Renaissance Painting, Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT, 2022, no. 3.

Bibliography

1901

Kristeller, Paul. Andrea Mantegna. London and New York, 1901: 455, as by a Sixteenth-Century Veronese Artist.

1902

Kristeller, Paul. Andrea Mantegna. Berlin and Leipzig, 1902: as by a Sixteenth-Century Veronese Artist.

1910

Monod, François. “L’Exposition Nationale des maîtres anciens à Londres.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 52, no. 3 (1910): 57, 58-59, repro.

1930

Ricci, Corrado. Correggio. Rome, 1930: 21, 141, pl. 1, as by Correggio. English ed. London and New York, 1930: 23-24, 149, pl. 1, as by Correggio.

1937

Fiocco, Giuseppe. Mantegna. Milan, 1937: 78, 210, pl. 160, as by Andrea Mantegna.

1939

Richter, George M. “A Mantegna Problem.” Apollo 29, no. 170 (February 1939): 63, as by Andrea Mantegna.

1940

Suida, Wilhelm. "Die Sammlung Kress: New York." Pantheon 26 (1940): 276, as by Andrea Mantegna.

1941

Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 79, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.

1941

Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 121-122, no. 377, as by Andrea Mantegna.

1942

Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 145, as by Andrea Mantegna.

1943

Bodmer, Enrico. Il Correggio e gli Emiliani. Novara, 1943: viii.

1945

Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 86, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.

1955

Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. Mantegna. Paintings Drawings Engravings. New York, 1955: 201-202, pl. 8, as by a Follower of Andrea Mantegna.

1956

Cirpriani, Renata. Tutta la pittura del Mantegna. Milan, 1956: 83, as Attributed to Andrea Mantegna, possibly Correggio.

1958

Longhi, Roberto. “Le fasi del Correggio giovine e l’esigenza del suo viaggio romano.” Paragone 9, no. 101 (1958): 35-36, as by Correggio.

1959

Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 134, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.

1961

Bottari, Stefano. Correggio. Milan, 1961: 286, as by Correggio.

1962

Arb, Renée Marie. “The Young Correggio.” Ph.D. diss., Radclife College, 1962: 21-22.

1963

Cipriani, Renata. All the Paintings of Mantegna. 2 vols. New York, 1963: 2:104, pl. 184, as Attributed to Andrea Mantegna, possibly Correggio.

1964

Laskin, Myron. “The Early Work of Correggio.” Ph.D. diss., New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, 1964: 106, fig. 38a, as School of Andrea Mantegna.

1965

Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 82, as by Andrea Mantegna.

1967

Garavaglia, Niny. L’opera completa del Mantegna. Milan, 1967: 121, no. 104, as doubtfully by Andrea Mantegna, more likely by Correggio. English ed. New York, 1967: 121, no. 104.

1968

Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:242, as by Andrea Mantegna (?).

1968

National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 73, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.

1968

Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 26, fig. 59.

1970

Quintavalle, Arturo Carlo. L’opera completa del Correggio. Milan, 1970: 89, no. 11, as by Correggio.

1972

Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 56, 118, 646, listed under both Correggio or Andrea Mantegna.

1975

European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 214, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.

1976

Gould, Cecil. The Paintings of Correggio. London, 1976: 285.

1976

Shearman, John. “Review of Cecil Gould, Correggio (1976).” Times Literary Supplement (18 March 1977): 303.

1979

Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:300-301; 2:pl. 214, as by Andrea Mantegna.

1981

Rowlands, Eliot W. “Review of Fern Rusk Shapley. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings 1979.” Apollo 144, no. 237 (November 1981): 353.

1985

European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 248, repro.

1986

Lightbown, Ronald. Mantegna. Oxford, 1986: 480, cat. 174, pl. 204.

1996

Ekserdjian, David. "Correggio.” In Jane Turner, ed. The Dictionary of Art. 34 vols. New York and London, 1996: 7:885, as by Correggio.

1997

Ekserdjian, David. Correggio. New Haven and London, 1997: 27, fig. 26, as by Correggio.

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: 448-451, color repro.

2019

Ekserdjian, David. “L’eredità: Da Garofalo e Correggio a Rubens, Rembrandt e oltre.” In Sandrina Bandera, Howard Burns, and Vincenzo Farinella, eds. Andrea Mantegna: Riviere l’antico, costruire il modern. Exh. cat. Palazzo Madama, Turin, 2019: 260, as by Correggio.

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