Madonna and Child
c. 1505/1510
Painter
Painter, Parmese, 1489/1494 - 1534
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 56.25 × 41 cm (22 1/8 × 16 1/8 in.)
framed: 98.11 × 85.41 × 15.88 cm (38 5/8 × 33 5/8 × 6 1/4 in.) -
Accession
1939.1.266
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Probably John Smith-Barry [b. 1725], Marbury Hall, Northwich, Cheshire;[1] by inheritance to his son, James Hugh Smith-Barry [1748/1749-1801], Marbury Hall; by inheritance to his illegitimate son, John Smith-Barry [1793-1837], Marbury Hall; by inheritance to his son, James Hugh Smith-Barry [1816-1856], Marbury Hall; by inheritance to his son, Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry, 1st [and last] baron Barrymore [1843-1925], Marbury Hall; (his estate sale, Sotheby's, London, 21 June 1933, no. 89, as by Mantegna); acquired by Borenius for (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[2] sold March 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] The preface to the 1933 sale catalogue discusses the history of the collection, and the Smith-Barry family owners are detailed by the Getty Provenance Index; see also Burke's Irish Family Records, London, 1976: 76-77.
[2] The List of purchasers and prices realized, in the NGA Library copy of the sale catalogue, confirms that no. 89 was purchased by Dr. Borenius. According to an annotated copy of the sales catalogue in the Waterhouse collection at the Getty Research Institute, Borenius was buying for Duveen.
[3] The Duveen Brothers letter confirming the sale of twenty-four paintings, including NGA 1939.1.266, is dated 9 March 1937; the provenance is given as "Lord Barrymore Collection" (copy in NGA curatorial files; Box 474, Folder 5, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles). See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1329.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1909
National Loan Exhibition, Grafton Galleries, London, 1909-1910, no. 88.
2008
Correggio e l'antico, Museo Galleria di Villa Borghese, Rome, 2008, no. 1, repro.
Mantegna, 1431-1506, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2008-2009, no. 185, repro., as by Correggio.
2016
Correggio e Parmigianino: Arte a Parma nel Cinquecento, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2016, no. 1, repro., as by Correggio.
2022
Out of the Kress Vaults: Women in Sacred Renaissance Painting, Fairfield University Art Museum, Fairfield, CT, 2022, no. 3.
Bibliography
1901
Kristeller, Paul. Andrea Mantegna. London and New York, 1901: 455, as by a Sixteenth-Century Veronese Artist.
1902
Kristeller, Paul. Andrea Mantegna. Berlin and Leipzig, 1902: as by a Sixteenth-Century Veronese Artist.
1910
Monod, François. “L’Exposition Nationale des maîtres anciens à Londres.” Gazette des Beaux-Arts 52, no. 3 (1910): 57, 58-59, repro.
1930
Ricci, Corrado. Correggio. Rome, 1930: 21, 141, pl. 1, as by Correggio. English ed. London and New York, 1930: 23-24, 149, pl. 1, as by Correggio.
1937
Fiocco, Giuseppe. Mantegna. Milan, 1937: 78, 210, pl. 160, as by Andrea Mantegna.
1939
Richter, George M. “A Mantegna Problem.” Apollo 29, no. 170 (February 1939): 63, as by Andrea Mantegna.
1940
Suida, Wilhelm. "Die Sammlung Kress: New York." Pantheon 26 (1940): 276, as by Andrea Mantegna.
1941
Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 79, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 121-122, no. 377, as by Andrea Mantegna.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 145, as by Andrea Mantegna.
1943
Bodmer, Enrico. Il Correggio e gli Emiliani. Novara, 1943: viii.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 86, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.
1955
Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. Mantegna. Paintings Drawings Engravings. New York, 1955: 201-202, pl. 8, as by a Follower of Andrea Mantegna.
1956
Cirpriani, Renata. Tutta la pittura del Mantegna. Milan, 1956: 83, as Attributed to Andrea Mantegna, possibly Correggio.
1958
Longhi, Roberto. “Le fasi del Correggio giovine e l’esigenza del suo viaggio romano.” Paragone 9, no. 101 (1958): 35-36, as by Correggio.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 134, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.
1961
Bottari, Stefano. Correggio. Milan, 1961: 286, as by Correggio.
1962
Arb, Renée Marie. “The Young Correggio.” Ph.D. diss., Radclife College, 1962: 21-22.
1963
Cipriani, Renata. All the Paintings of Mantegna. 2 vols. New York, 1963: 2:104, pl. 184, as Attributed to Andrea Mantegna, possibly Correggio.
1964
Laskin, Myron. “The Early Work of Correggio.” Ph.D. diss., New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, 1964: 106, fig. 38a, as School of Andrea Mantegna.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 82, as by Andrea Mantegna.
1967
Garavaglia, Niny. L’opera completa del Mantegna. Milan, 1967: 121, no. 104, as doubtfully by Andrea Mantegna, more likely by Correggio. English ed. New York, 1967: 121, no. 104.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 73, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 26, fig. 59.
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:242, as by Andrea Mantegna (?).
1970
Quintavalle, Arturo Carlo. L’opera completa del Correggio. Milan, 1970: 89, no. 11, as by Correggio.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 56, 118, 646, listed under both Correggio or Andrea Mantegna.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 214, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.
1976
Gould, Cecil. The Paintings of Correggio. London, 1976: 285.
Shearman, John. “Review of Cecil Gould, Correggio (1976).” Times Literary Supplement (18 March 1977): 303.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:300-301; 2:pl. 214, as by Andrea Mantegna.
1981
Rowlands, Eliot W. “Review of Fern Rusk Shapley. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings 1979.” Apollo 144, no. 237 (November 1981): 353.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 248, repro.
1986
Lightbown, Ronald. Mantegna. Oxford, 1986: 480, cat. 174, pl. 204.
1996
Ekserdjian, David. "Correggio.” In Jane Turner, ed. The Dictionary of Art. 34 vols. New York and London, 1996: 7:885, as by Correggio.
1997
Ekserdjian, David. Correggio. New Haven and London, 1997: 27, fig. 26, as by Correggio.
2003
Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 448-451, color repro.
2019
Ekserdjian, David. “L’eredità: Da Garofalo e Correggio a Rubens, Rembrandt e oltre.” In Sandrina Bandera, Howard Burns, and Vincenzo Farinella, eds. Andrea Mantegna: Riviere l’antico, costruire il modern. Exh. cat. Palazzo Madama, Turin, 2019: 260, as by Correggio.
Wikidata ID
Q3842386