Angel with Symphonia, c. 1360

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 2

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 53.8 x 21.5 x 17.8 cm (21 3/16 x 8 7/16 x 7 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1960.5.14

Artists / Makers

Pisan 14th Century (sculptor)

Image Use

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Provenance

Probably from the Campo Santo.[1] Stefano Bardini [1836-1922], Florence.[2] Prince Johan II of Liechtenstein [1840-1929], Vienna, by 1896; [3] Prince Franz I of Liechtenstein [1853-1938]; Prince Franz Josef II of Liechtenstein [1906-1989]; acquired 2 April 1953 by (J. Seligmann & Co., New York);[4] sold 1954 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1960 to NGA.

[1] From letter written by W.R. Valentiner, Los Angeles, April 1953.

[2] See letter from Alison Luchs dated 26 June 1991, in NGA curatorial files.

[3] Bode, Wilhelm von, Die Fürstlich Leichtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie, Vienna, 1896: 130.

[4] See letters addressed to Jacques Seligmann & Company from the Director of the Liechtenstein Collection, dated 2 April 1953, in the Jacques Seligmann & Co. Records, Seligmann papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington: Box 244; copies in NGA curatorial files.

Associated Names

Bardini, Stefano
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Liechtenstein, Prince Franz Josef II of
Liechtenstein, Prince Franz I of
Liechtenstein, Prince Johann II of
Liechtenstein, Princes of
Seligmann & Cie., Jacques

Bibliography

1896: Bode, Wilhelm von. Die Fürstlich Leichtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie. Vienna, 1896: 130.

1949: Valentiner, Wilhelm. "Orcagna and the Black Death of 1348." Art Quarterly XII (Spring 1949): 127

1954: Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc. A Catalogue of Seven Marble Sculptures of the Italian Trecento and Quattrocento from the Collection of his Highness the Prince of Liechtenstein. New York, 1954:17-18, repro., as Orcagna.

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: 258-260, no. 107, repro., as Angel with Hurdy-Gurdy by Orcagna.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 389, repro., as Angel with Hurdy-Gurdy by Orcagna.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 164, as Angel with Hurdy-Gurdy by Orcagna.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 144, repro., as Angel with Hurdy-Gurdy by Orcagna.

1976: Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 10.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 174, repro.