Prudence
c. 1357
Artist, Lombard, active 1357 - 1397
Artwork overview
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Medium
marble
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 67.7 x 19.1 x 15.2 cm (26 5/8 x 7 1/2 x 6 in.)
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Accession
1960.5.6
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Stefano Bardini [1836-1922], Florence.[1] Prince Johan II of Liechtenstein [1840-1929], Vienna, by 1896;[2] Prince Franz I of Liechtenstein [1853-1938]; Prince Franz Josef II of Liechtenstein [1906-1989]; acquired 2 April 1953 by (J. Seligmann & Co., New York);[3] purchased 1954 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1960 to NGA.
[1] Lusanna, Enrica Neri and Lucia Faedo. Il Museo Bardini a Firenze, volume secondo: le sculture, Firenze, 1986: 31.
[2] Bode, Wilhelm von, Die Fürstlich Leichtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie, Vienna, 1896: 130.
[3] See letters to Jacques Seligmann & Company from the Director of the Liechtenstein Collection, dated 2 April 1953, in the Jacques Seligmann & Co. Records, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington: Box 244; copies in NGA curatorial files.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2015
Arte lombarda dai Visconti agli Sforza. Milano al centro dell'Europa, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2015, no. I.26, repro.
Bibliography
1896
Bode, Wilhelm von. Die Fürstlich Leichtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie. Vienna, 1896: 130.
1927
Kronfeld, Adolf. Führer durch die Fürstlich-Liechtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie in Wien. Vienna, 1927: XVII.
1931
Kronfeld, Adolf. Führer durch die Fürstlich-Liechtensteinsche Gemäldegalerie in Wien. Vienna, 1931: XVIII.
1954
Jacques Seligmann & Co., Inc. A Catalogue of Seven Marble Sculptures of the Italian Trecento and Quattrocento from the Collection of his Highness the Prince of Liechtenstein. New York, 1954: 10-16, 32-33, repros. 12-14.
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: 216-219, no. 87, repro.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 385, repro.
1961
Seligman, Germain. Merchants of Art: 1880-1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting. New York, 1961: 257, repro. pl. 122.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 147.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 130, repro.
1976
Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 11.
1984
Scalia, Fiorenza and Cristina de Benedictis, eds. Il Museo Bardini a Firenze. 2 vols. Florence, 1984-1986: 2(1986): 29 repro., 31.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 32, 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.
2001
Vergani, Graziano Alfredo. L’arca di Bernabo Visconti al Castello Sforzesco di Milano. Milan, 2001: 131-133, 166, repro. 133.
Markings
(Prince of Liechtenstein inventory number);in crayon, underlined: 295
Wikidata ID
Q63854569