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Filippino Lippi

The Coronation of the Virgin, c. 1475

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 9

Medium

tempera and oil on poplar panel

Dimensions

overall: 90.5 x 222.9 cm (35 5/8 x 87 3/4 in.)

framed: 99.1 x 229.9 x 7.6 cm (39 x 90 1/2 x 3 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1943.4.36

Artists / Makers

Filippino Lippi (painter) Florentine, 1457 - 1504

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Provenance

William Blundell Spence [1815-1900], Florence, by c. 1860; sold February 1861 to William Schomberg Robert Kerr, 8th marquess of Lothian [1832-1870], Newbattle Abbey, Dalkeith, Scotland;[1] by inheritance to his brother, Schomberg Henry Kerr, 9th marquess of Lothian [1833-1900], Newbattle Abbey; by inheritance to his son, Robert Schomberg Kerr, 10th marquess of Lothian [1874-1930], Newbattle Abbey; by inheritance to his cousin, Philip Henry Kerr, 11th marquess of Lothian [1882-1940], Newbattle Abbey;[2] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, Paris); sold 1940 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1943 to NGA.

[1] See John Fleming, "Art Dealing in the Risorgimento. Part 3," The Burlington Magazine 121, no. 918 (September 1979): 571 n. 28. According to a letter from Spence to the marquess of Lothian, dated 9 February 1861, preserved in the Scottish Record Office in Edinburgh (SRO GD 40/9/407/11), the panel was at that date already in the latter's possession; see Robert M.G. Wenley's written communication of 4 December 1989 in NGA curatorial files.

[2] The panel is still cited as belonging to the collection of the marquess of Lothian in Bernard Berenson, The Drawings of Florentine Painters, 2nd rev. ed., 3 vols., ed. Fern Rush Shapley, Chicago, 1938: 2:147; presumably it was sold shortly after the death of the 11th marquess in 1940.

[3] Fern Rusk Shapley, Catalogue of the Italian Paintings, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 1:260. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2110.

Associated Names

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kerr, 10th marquess of Lothian, Robert Schomberg
Kerr, 11th marquess of Lothian, Philip Henry
Kerr, 8th marquess of Lothian, William Schomberg Robert
Kerr, 9th marquess of Lothian, Schomberg Henry
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Spence, William Blundell

Exhibition History

1865: International Exhibition of Arts and Manufactures, Dublin, 1865, no. 103 (under Paintings).

1883: Works of Old Masters, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1883, no. 539.

1885: Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters. Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1885, no. 235, as by Filippo Lippi.

1893: Exhibition of Early Italian Art From 1300 to 1550, New Gallery, London, 1893-1894, no. 80, as by Filippo Lippi.

Bibliography

1869: Crowe, Joseph Archer, and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle. Geschichte der italienischen Malerei. 6 vols. Leipzig, 1869-1876: 3(1870): 84, as Follower of Filippo Lippi.

1885: Phillips, Claude. “Exposition d’oeuvres des maîtres anciens à la Royal Academy.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 31 (1885): 272, as by Botticelli.

1886: Crowe, Joseph Archer, and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle. Storia della pittura in Italia dal secolo II al secolo XVI.. 11 vols. Florence, 1886-1908: 5(1892): 241, as possibly by Fra Diamante.

1894: Ffoulkes, Constance J. “Le esposizioni d’arte italiana à Londra.” Archivio Storico dell’Arte 7 (1894): 156, as School of Filippo Lippi, close to Botticelli.

1894: Phillips, Claude. “Expositions d’hiver a la Royal Academy et à la New Gallery de Londres.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 11 (1894): 355, 356, as Workshop of Filippo Lippi, perhaps with the young Botticelli.

1894: Richter, Jean-Paul. “Die Austellung italienischer Renaissancewerke in der New Gallery in London.” Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 17 (1894) 239.

1894: Ulmann, Hermann. “Photographische Reproductionen in der New Gallery in London.” Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft 17 (1894): 490, as Follower of Botticelli.

1899: Berenson, Bernard. “Amico di Sandro. Part 1.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 41, no. 21 (1899): 466, as by Amico di Sandro.

1900: Berenson, Bernard. The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, 2nd ed. New York and London, 1900: 97, as by Amico di Sandro.

1900: Plunkett, George N. Sandro Botticelli. London, 1900: 103, as Workshop of Botticelli.

1901: Berenson, Bernard. The Study and Criticism of Italian Art. London, 1901: 51-54, repro., as by Amico di Sandro.

1905: Reinach, Salomon. Répertoire de peintures du moyen âge et de la Renaissance (1280-1580). 6 vols. Paris, 1905-1923: 1(1905): 496, repro., as School of Botticelli.

1909: Berenson, Bernard. The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, 3rd ed. London, 1909: 101, as by Amico di Sandro.

1913: Graves, Algernon. A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912. 5 vols. London, 1913-1915: 2:710

1923: Marle, Raimond van. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, 19 vols. The Hague, 1923-1938: 12 (1931):234, as by a pupil of Botticelli.

1932: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932: 284.

1935: Scharf, Alfred. Filippino Lippi. Vienna, 1932: 79, 117, as School of Filippino Lippi.

1936: Berenson, Bernard. Pitture italiane del Rinascimento. Milan, 1936: 244.

1938: Berenson, Bernard. Drawings of the Florentine Painters, 3 vols. Chicago, 1938: 2:147, no. 1321A .

1938: Neilson, Katharine B. Filippino Lippi, a Critical Study. New York, 1938: 28 n. 23.

1941: Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: nos. 108-109, repros.

1941: Frankfurter, Alfred M. “On the Italian Renaissance Painters in the National Gallery.” Art News 40, no. 3 (15-31 March 1941): 22, repro.

1941: Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 106-107, no. 537.

1942: Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 250, repro. 130.

1944: Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 31, repro.

1945: [Borenius, Tancred]. “Editorial: The New Kress Gift to the National Gallery, Washington.” The Burlington Magazine 86, no. 504 (March 1945): 56.

1950: Scharf, Alfred. Filippino Lippi, 2nd ed. Vienna, 1950: 10, 50, pl. 4.

1951: Galetti, Ugo and Ettore Camesasca. Enciclopedia della pittura italiana. Milan, 1951: 53, as by Amico di Sandro.

1951: Oertel, Robert. “Review. Alfred Scharf, Filippino Lippi.” Kunstchronik 4 (February 1951): 37.

1954: Ferguson, George. Signs and Symbols in Christian Art. New York, 1954: fig. 28.

1957: Berti, Luciano, and Umberto Baldini. Filippino Lippi. Florence, 1957: 22, 75.

1957: Salvini, Roberto. “Botticelli e Filippino.” In Cesare Brandi, et. al. Saggi su Filippino Lippi. Florence, 1957: 65

1958: Gamba, Fiametta. Filippino Lippi nella storia della critica. Florence, 1958: 54, 93, 103 n. 34, as by Botticelli.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 72, repro.

1960: Ragghianti, Carlo L.. “Filippino Lippi a Lucca, l’altare Magrini, nuovi problem e nuovi soluzioni.” Critica d’Arte 7 (1960): 40, as entirely by Botticelli except for the figure of God the Father, by Filippino Lippi.

1961: Berenson, Bernard. I disegni dei pittori fiorentini, 3 vols. Milan, 1961: 2:247.

1963: Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Florentine School. 2 vols. London, 1963: 1:111.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 75.

1966: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 135-136, fig. 370.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 66, repro.

1969: Fahy, Everett. “A Tondo by Sandro Botticelli.” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 4 (1969): 25 n. 8, as probably by Botticelli.

1972: Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 106, 646.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 196, repro.

1976: Echols, Mary Tuck. “The Coronation of the Virgin in Fifteenth-Century Italian Art.” Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1976: 256.

1979: Fleming, John. "Art Dealing in the Risorgimento, 3." The Burlington Magazine 121, no. 918 (1979): 571, 579 n. 28.

1979: Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:260; 2:pl. 176.

1980: Ragghianti, Carlo L. “Galleria di Washington.” Critica d’Arte 45, nos. 154-156 (1980): 218-219, as Workshop of Botticelli.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 97, no. 56, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 229, repro.

1985: Sutton, Denys. "Aspects of British Collecting, pt. 4." Apollo 122 (1985): 98-99, fig. 8.

1987: Horne, Herbert. H. Alessandro Filipepi commonly called Sandro Botticelli, Painter of Florence. Appendix III: Catalogue of the works of Sandro Botticelli, and of his disciples and imitators, together with notices of those erroneously attributed to him in the public and private collections of Europe and America. Edited by Caterina Caneva. Florence, 1987: 185, as by Amico di Sandro.

1991: Berti, Luciano, and Umberto Baldini. Filippino Lippi, 2nd ed. Florence, 1991: 64-65, 166, repro.

1996: Zambrano, Patrizia. “The ‘Dead Christ’ in Cherbourg: a new attribution to the young Filippino Lippi.” The Burlington Magazine 138, no. 1118 (May 1996): 324.

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: 374-378, color repro.

2004: Boskovits, Miklós. “Una mostra su Botticelli e Filippino.” Arte Cristiana 92, no. 825 (2004): 411, as by Botticelli and Filippino Lippi.

2004: Nelson, Jonathan Katz. “Filippino Lippi as Student, Collaborator, and Competitor of Botticelli.” In Daniel Arasse et. al., eds. Botticelli and Filippino: Passion and Grace in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Painting. Exh. cat. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2004: 90-91, fig. 7, as by Botticelli and Filippino Lippi.

2004: Zambrano, Patrizia, and Jonathan Katz Nelson. Filippino Lippi. Milan, 2004: 20, 80, 101, 103, 134-139, 205, 281 nn. 25 and 27, 288 n. 102, 321, 324, 326-327, 408, 560 n. 73, cat. 20, figs. 110, 114, 116, 120, as by Filippino Lippi and Botticelli.

2005: Cecchi, Alessandro. Botticelli. Milan, 2005: 68.

2023: Rinaldi, Furio. “‘The Rhythm of Line,’ or Botticelli’s Drawings.” In Furio Rinaldi, ed. Botticelli Drawings. Exh. cat. Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2023: 21, fig. 16.