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Madonna and Child
Marco Zoppoc. 1467/1468
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Madonna and Child
- Creator: Marco Zoppo or Imitator
- Date Created: c. 1467/1468
- Physical Dimensions: painted surface: 41.2 x 29.8 cm (16 1/4 x 11 3/4 in.) overall (with engaged frame): 47 x 35.7 cm (18 1/2 x 14 1/16 in.)
- Provenance: Ascoli, Bologna; purchased November 1880 by Sir John Charles Robinson [1824-1913], London; sold February 1882 to Sir Francis Cook, 1st bt. [1817-1901], Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey;[1] by inheritance to his son, Sir Frederick Lucas Cook, 2nd bt. [1844-1920], Doughty House; by inheritance to his son, Sir Herbert Frederick Cook, 3rd bt. [1868-1939], Doughty House; by inheritance to his son, Sir Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 4th bt. [1907-1978], Doughty House, and Cothay Manor, Somerset; sold December 1953 to (Margaret Drey, London);[2] (Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., New York); sold 29 January 1954 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1961 to NGA. [1] Robinson's handwritten account book listing his sales of paintings between 1874 and 1907 (Department of Western Art Archive, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) contains an entry (no. 241) for a Zoppo _Madonna and Child_ bought "of Ascoli at Bologna Nov[ember] 1880 - came from Modena," which was sold to Francis Cook on 10 February 1882. (A copy of the relevant page is in NGA curatorial files.) [2] According to correspondence with the keeper of the Cook collection (copies in NGA curatorial files, from the Cook Collection Archive in care of John Somerville, England). [3] Letters from Saemy Rosenberg of 29 and 30 January 1954 to Guy Emerson and John Walker, respectively (copies in NGA curatorial files, see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1341).
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: tempera on poplar panel
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