The Infant Savior
The Infant Savior
- Artist
- Andrea Mantegna
- Artist Dates
- c. 1431-1506
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- The Infant Savior
- Date
- c. 1460
- Medium
- tempera on canvas
- Dimensions
- 70.2 x 34.3 cm (27 5/8 x 13 1/2 in)
- K Number
- K1563
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1952.5.67
- Notes
Provenance
Sir Francis Cook, 1st bt. [1817-1901], Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, by 1901; [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 June or July 1947 to (Gualtiero Volterra, London) for (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence); [2] sold July 1948 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [3] gift 1952 to NGA. [1] Paul Kristeller, _Andrea Mantegna_, English ed. by S. Arthur Strong, London, 1901: 455; German ed., Berlin, 1902: 476. [2] See letter of 8 July 1947 from H.J. Wasbrough, one of the Cook collection trustees, to A.J. Shanly, the collection's caretaker (copy in NGA curatorial files, from the Cook Collection Archive in care of John Somerville, England). Volterra was Contini-Bonacossi's agent in London. [3] The Kress Foundation made an offer to Contini-Bonacossi on 7 June 1948 for a group of twenty-eight paintings, including the Mantegna; the offer was accepted on 11 July 1948 (see copies of correspondence in NGA curatorial files).