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Verona 14th Century

Madonna and Child with Two Angels, 1321

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 1

Medium

marble

Dimensions

overall: 89.5 x 46.4 x 38.8 cm (35 1/4 x 18 1/4 x 15 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1961.9.95

Artists / Makers

Verona 14th Century (sculptor)

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Inscription

on book: CONTINET IN GERMIO CELV[M] TERRA[M] Q[UE]REGENTE[M] VIRGO DEI GENETRIX MCCCXXI

Provenance

Palazzo Lazara, Padua. (Paul Drey, New York) by 1935 until at least 1938.[1] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., New York) by 1940.[2] Acquired 1944 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.[3]

[1]This work was exhibited at Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance, A.S.Drey Galleries, 2-20 March 1935, p.7n.1. It was also exhibited at Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculpture, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Jan.7-Feb.20 1938, as lent by Paul Drey.

[2]Kress files say the work was exhibited at Arts of the Middle Ages, Feb.17-March 24, 1940 as lent by Duveen Brothers Inc, New York.

[3]Provenance according to Ulrich Middeldorf, Complete Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Sculptures XIV-XIX Century, 1976, p. 12.

Associated Names

Drey Gallery, Paul
Duveen Brothers, Inc.
Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
Palazzo Lazara

Exhibition History

1935: Exhibition of Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance, A.S. Drey Galleries, New York, 1935, no. 1, as by The Comacini.

1938: Eighteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures [cover title: Italian Sculpture 1250-1500], Detroit Institute of Arts, 1938, no. 6, repro., as North Italian.

Bibliography

1946: Frankfurter, Alfred M. Supplement to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1946: 18, repro., as North Italian

1976: Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 12.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 232, 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.

2008: Penny, Nicholas. "The Evolution of the Plinth, Pedestal, and Socle." In Collecting Sculpture in Early Modern Europe. Nicholas Penny and Eike D. Schmidt, eds. Studies in the History of Art 70, Symposium Papers 47 (2008): 467, 468 fig. 12.