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The Adoration of the Child
Andrea della Robbiaafter 1477
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: The Adoration of the Child
- Creator: Andrea della Robbia
- Date Created: after 1477
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 127.8 × 77.4 cm (50 5/16 × 30 1/2 in.) framed: 104.1 x 77.5 x 13.8 cm (41 x 30 1/2 x 5 7/16 in.) gross weight: 90.719 kg (200 lb.)
- Provenance: Purchased 1880 in Florence by Charles Fairfax Murray [1849-1919] for John Ruskin [1819-1900], Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria;[1] by inheritance to his cousin, Joan Ruskin Agnew Severn [1846-1924, Mrs. Arthur Severn], Brantwood; by inheritance to her husband, Joseph Arthur Pallison Severn [1842-1931], Brantwood; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 May 1931, no. 66); purchased by Spanish Art Gallery.[2] (French & Co., New York), by 1938;[3] purchased 1945 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA. [1] E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds., _The Works of John Ruskin_, London, 1903-1912, volume II of the letters, p. 311. [2] Annotated sales catalogue reproduced in James S. Dearden, _Sales & exhibition catalogues relating to John Ruskin_, Oxford microfiche, 1981. [3] The work was lent by French & Co. to an exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1938.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: glazed terracotta
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