Madonna and Child, c. 1430

West Building, Ground Floor — Gallery G15

Medium

painted and gilded terracotta

Dimensions

overall (w/out tabernacle): 66.7 x 45.7 cm (26 1/4 x 18 in.)

framed: 130.8 x 86 x 13 cm (51 1/2 x 33 7/8 x 5 1/8 in.)
accessory size: 130.8 x 85.1 cm (51 1/2 x 33 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection

Accession Number

1961.9.103

Artists / Makers

Tuscan 15th Century (sculptor)

Image Use

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Inscription

on frame across bottom: IESUS.XRS [Christus].EMANUEL.ADONAI.SABAI [Saddai].ELOI.SABOT [Sabaoth]

Provenance

Leopoldo Nomi, San Gimignano; Teresa Nomi Pesciolini, San Gimignano; sold 1923 to (Professor Luigi Grassi [1858-1937], Florence); Achille De Clemente, Florence; Alfredo Barsanti, Rome [d. 1946], from 1928;[1] by inheritance to his daughter, Adele Barsanti Mericci, Rome; purchased 1952 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] Provenance according to notes written by Alfredo Barsanti, dated 29 November 1951.

[2] According to a letter from Perry B. Cott dated 2 December 1952 (in NGA curatorial files), Kress bought the sculpture directly from Adele Barsanti Mericci.

Associated Names

Barsanti, Alfredo
Clemente, Achille de
Grassi, Luigi, Professor
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: 232, no. 93, repro., as by Giovanni di Turino.

1959: Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 398, repro., as by Giovanni di Turino.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 158, as by Giovanni di Turino.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 140, repro., as by Giovanni di Turino.

1976: Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 15.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 102, repro.

1997: Edmonds, Penelope. "A Technical Examination, Investigation, and Treatment of a Fifteenth-Century Sienese Polychrome Terra-Cotta Relief." Studies in the History of Art 57 (1997): 67-91, repro. no. 1.