Madonna and Child, c. 1550

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G14

Medium

papier mache and stucco, painted and gilded

Dimensions

overall: 119.4 x 95.6 cm (47 x 37 5/8 in.)

framed: 195.6 x 146.7 x 11.4 cm (77 x 57 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1961.1.6

Artists / Makers

Jacopo Sansovino (artist) Florentine-Venetian, 1486 - 1570

Image Use

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Provenance

A villa in Fasano, Lago di Garda.[1] Baron Max von Heyl, Darmstadt; (Galerie Hugo Helbing, Munich); sold 28 October 1930 to (Julius Böhler, Munich); sold 30 July 1931 to William Randolph Hearst [1863-1951], San Simeon, California.[2] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 1949 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] Provenance according to Ulrich Middeldorf, Complete Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Sculptures XIV-XIX Century, London, 1976: 75.

[2] Information about Hearst's ownership can be found in The William Randolph Hearst Collection: photographs and acquisition records on microfiche, Taylor Coffman, ed., New York, 1987: fiche 252. Mary Levkoff of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art kindly brought these records to the NGA's attention (see her letter of 19 September 2006 in NGA curatorial files). It appears from a hand-written notation on the typed information sheet in the Hearst files that the sculpture was sold at the 1942 Gimbel Brothers sale of the Hearst collection. This is possibly where Duveen Brothers purchased it.

Associated Names

Böhler, Julius
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Hearst, William Randolph
Heyl, Max von, Baron
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.

Bibliography

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: 262, no. 109, repro.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 428, 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: 74.

1989: Jacopo Sansovino a Vittorio Veneto. Il rilievo in cartapesta della Madonna col Bambino. Exh. cat. Museo del Cenedese, Vittorio Veneto. Treviso, 1989: 40, 42 fig. 21, 43 n. 22.

1991: Boucher, Bruce. The Sculpture of Jacopo Sansovino. 2 vols. New Haven and London, 1991: 1:107-110, 254 n. 137, 265 n. 70; 2:347, 348, 351 no. 56, fig. 337.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 214, repro.

2006: Bonelli, Massimo and Maria Grazia Vaccari. “’Il gran quadro di basso rilievo…’ Un ritorno a Jacopo Sansovino.” In Maria Grazia Vaccari, ed. Jacopo Sansovino. La Madonna in cartapesta del Barello. Esemplari a confront. Rome, 2006: 29, n. 18

2007: Levkoff, Mary. "The Little-Known American Provenance of Some Well-Known European Sculptures." In Baron, Françoise, and Pierre-Yves Le Pogam. La sculpture en Occident. Études offertes à Jean-René Gaborit, réunies sous la direction de Geneviève Bresc-Bautier. Dijon, 2007: 300, fig. 6.

2008: Levkoff, Mary L. Hearst the Collector. Exh. cat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, 2008: 19, fig. 1.4.

2012: Casciaro, Raffaele. “Cartapeste di Jacopo Sansovino.” In Raffaele Casciaro, ed. Cartapesta e scultura polimaterica. Atti del convegno 9-10 maggio 2008. Galatina, 2012: 57-76, esp. 61, 70.

2013: Ozone, Judy L. “One of Many: A Cartapesta Relief of Jacopo Sansovino.” Facture : conservation, science, art history 1 (2013): 104-127, figs. 1, 3, 8, 12, 13.