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The Coronation of the Virgin
Filippino Lippic. 1475
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: The Coronation of the Virgin
- Creator: Filippino Lippi
- Date Created: c. 1475
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 90.5 x 222.9 cm (35 5/8 x 87 3/4 in.) framed: 99.1 x 229.9 x 7.6 cm (39 x 90 1/2 x 3 in.)
- Provenance: William Blundell Spence [1815-1900], Florence, by c. 1860; sold February 1861 to William Schomberg Robert Kerr, 8th marquess of Lothian [1832-1870], Newbattle Abbey, Dalkeith, Scotland;[1] by inheritance to his brother, Schomberg Henry Kerr, 9th marquess of Lothian [1833-1900], Newbattle Abbey; by inheritance to his son, Robert Schomberg Kerr, 10th marquess of Lothian [1874-1930], Newbattle Abbey; by inheritance to his cousin, Philip Henry Kerr, 11th marquess of Lothian [1882-1940], Newbattle Abbey;[2] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, Paris); sold 1940 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1943 to NGA. [1] See John Fleming, "Art Dealing in the Risorgimento. Part 3," _The Burlington Magazine_ 121, no. 918 (September 1979): 571 n. 28. According to a letter from Spence to the marquess of Lothian, dated 9 February 1861, preserved in the Scottish Record Office in Edinburgh (SRO GD 40/9/407/11), the panel was at that date already in the latter's possession; see Robert M.G. Wenley's written communication of 4 December 1989 in NGA curatorial files. [2] The panel is still cited as belonging to the collection of the marquess of Lothian in Bernard Berenson, _The Drawings of Florentine Painters_, 2nd rev. ed., 3 vols., ed. Fern Rush Shapley, Chicago, 1938: 2:147; presumably it was sold shortly after the death of the 11th marquess in 1940. [3] Fern Rusk Shapley, _Catalogue of the Italian Paintings_, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 1:260. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2110.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: tempera and oil on poplar panel
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