Madonna Adoring the Child
c. 1900
Sculptor
Artwork overview
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Medium
terracotta with traces of polychromy
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 120.3 x 113 x 58.1 cm (47 3/8 x 44 1/2 x 22 7/8 in.)
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Accession
1943.4.82
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Possibly a church in Lucca. Elia Volpi [1858-1958], Palazzo Davanzati, Florence; sold 1913 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., New York, London, and Paris), by whom lent to Thomas Fortune Ryan, New York;[1] sold 1941 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1943 to the NGA.
[1] Letter from E. Fowles dated 8 May 1946 in NGA Curatorial Records.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1944
Duveen Brothers, Inc. Duveen Sculpture in Public Collections of America: A Catalog Raisonné with illustrations of Italian Renaissance Sculptures by the Great Masters which have passed through the House of Duveen. New York, 1944: figs. 157-160, as by Matteo Civitale.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 191, repro., as The Adoration of the Child by Matteo Civitale.
1976
Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 48.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 122, repro.
2004
Caglioti, Francesco. In Matteo Civitali e il suo tempo. Pittori, scultori e orafi a Lucca nel tardo Quattrocento. Ex. Cat. Lucca, Museo Nazionale di Villa Guinigi. Milan 2004: 70, 73-74, 77 (notes), repro. 71, figs. 75 and 76, as Florentine late 15th/early 16th century.
2007
Caglioti, Francesco. "Nuove terracotte di Benedetto da Maiano." Prospettiva 126-127 (April-July 2007): 23, 41, 43, figs. 42 and 44.
Wikidata ID
Q63809751