Virgin and Child with Saint John

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On View

West Building Main Floor, Gallery 9

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    painted terracotta

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 75.7 × 57.2 cm (29 13/16 × 22 1/2 in.)
    framed: 122.71 × 102.55 × 12.07 cm (48 5/16 × 40 3/8 × 4 3/4 in.)
    framed weight: 155 lb. (70.308 kg)

  • Accession

    1942.9.147

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Lowengard, Paris); sold 23 August 1905 to Peter A.B. Widener, Lynnewood Hall, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania;[1] inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania; gift 1942 to NGA.
[1] Acquisition date and source according to Widener card file in NGA curatorial records.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • Verrocchio: Sculptor and Painter of Renaissance Florence, Palazzo Strozzi and Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence (as Verrocchio: Master of Leonardo); National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019-2020, Florence catalogue, no. 6.9, repro., as a Florentine pupil of Verrocchio active in Rome, possibly Michele Marini da Fiesole; not in Washington catalogue.

Bibliography

1915

  • Sirén, Osvalt. "Some sculptures from Verrocchio's workshop." Art in America 3, n. 2 (February 1915): 60-61, fig. 6.

1928

  • Valentiner, Wilhelm R. "The Italian Renaissance Sculptures of the Widener Collection." Art News 26, no. 28 (14 April 1928): 16, pl. 7.

1930

  • Westheim, Paul, ed. "Achtung, Falschkunst! Fälscher und Kenner." Das Kunstblatt 14 (July 1930): 196, repro.

1942

  • Works of Art from the Widener Collection. Foreword by David Finley and John Walker. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 9.

1948

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Widener Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 (reprinted 1959): 122, repro.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 173.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 153, repro.

1994

  • Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 233, repro.

2014

  • Bologna, Ferdinando. Saturnino Gatti. Pittore e scultore nel Rinascimento aquilano. L’Aquila, 2014: 68-69, 186 (notes), repro. 40, 41, 43, 222, 224, 230-231, 291, 296-297, attributed to Francesco Trugii of Florence.

Wikidata ID

Q63809417

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