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Madonna and Child
Andrea del Verrocchioc. 1470/1480
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Madonna and Child
- Creator: after Andrea del Verrocchio
- Date Created: c. 1470/1480
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 78.1 x 53.6 cm (30 3/4 x 21 1/8 in.)
- Provenance: Baron Arthur de Schickler [1828-1919], Paris, and Martinvast, Normandy (near Cherbourg), by 1896;[1] by inheritance to his daughter, Marguerite, Comtesse Hubert de Pourtalès [1870-1956], Paris, and Martinvast, Normandy; sold April 1919 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York) in part-share agreement with (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York) and (Arnold Seligmann & Co., Paris); full ownership acquired 1922 by (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York);[2] Clarence H. Mackay [1874-1938], Roslyn, New York, by 1924; probably acquired from Mackay by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 1939 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1943 to NGA. [1] Bernard Berenson, _The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance_, New York and London, 1896: 187. [2] The Baron's daughter, who married Comte Hubert de Pourtalès in 1890, was her father's sole heiress. Edward Fowles (_Memories of Duveen Brothers_, London, 1976: 102-103, 134) discusses the original purchase agreement with Wildenstein and Seligmann for some of the works in the Schickler collection, and the subsequent agreement in 1922 that divided the works among the three dealers. The record for the painting in the "X Book" confirms the 1919 purchase and the fact that it was "taken over by W/Stein" (copy in NGA curatorial files; X Book, Reel 422, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles). [3] See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1333.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: tempera on poplar panel
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