Madonna and Child

Jacopo Sansovinoc. 1550

Details

Title: Madonna and Child
Creator: Jacopo Sansovino
Date Created: c. 1550
Physical Dimensions: overall: 119.4 x 95.6 cm (47 x 37 5/8 in.) framed: 195.6 x 146.7 x 11.4 cm (77 x 57 3/4 x 4 1/2 in.)
Provenance: A villa in Fasano, Lago di Garda.[1] Baron Max von Heyl, Darmstadt; (Galerie Hugo Helbing, Munich); sold 28 October 1930 to (Julius Böhler, Munich); sold 30 July 1931 to William Randolph Hearst [1863-1951], San Simeon, California.[2] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris); sold 1949 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA. [1] Provenance according to Ulrich Middeldorf, _Complete Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Sculptures XIV-XIX Century_, London, 1976: 75. [2] Information about Hearst's ownership can be found in _The William Randolph Hearst Collection: photographs and acquisition records on microfiche_, Taylor Coffman, ed., New York, 1987: fiche 252. Mary Levkoff of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art kindly brought these records to the NGA's attention (see her letter of 19 September 2006 in NGA curatorial files). It appears from a hand-written notation on the typed information sheet in the Hearst files that the sculpture was sold at the 1942 Gimbel Brothers sale of the Hearst collection. This is possibly where Duveen Brothers purchased it.
Medium: papier mache and stucco, painted and gilded

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