Madonna and Sleeping Child, c. 1500/1510

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G17

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 50.8 x 56.8 x 16.5 cm (20 x 22 3/8 x 6 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1960.5.3

Artists / Makers

North Italian 16th Century (sculptor)

Veronese 16th Century (sculptor)

Image Use

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Provenance

Mr. Otto Kahn [1867-1934] and Mrs. Otto Kahn [Addie Wolff Kahn, d. 1949], New York. (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1960 to NGA.

[1]See original Duveen prospectus in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kahn, Otto H.
Kahn, Otto H., Mrs.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.

Exhibition History

1946: Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. A-158.

1996: Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, unnumbered catalogue, 34-35, color repro.

Bibliography

1945: Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 197, repro.

1946: Frankfurter, Alfred M. Supplement to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1946: 43, repro.

1949: Seymour, Charles. Masterpieces of Sculpture from the National Gallery of Art. Washington and New York, 1949: 180, note 39, repro. 122-123.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 421, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 171.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 151, repro.

1976: Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 59.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 221, 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.