Madonna and Child
Madonna and Child
- Artist
- Attributed to Andrea del Sarto
- Artist Dates
- 1486-1530
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Madonna and Child
- Date
- c. 1510-1530
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 90.5 x 66.7 cm (35-5/8 x 26-2/4 in)
- K Number
- K253
- Repository
- Allentown Art Museum
- Accession Number
- 1960.014.000
- Notes
Provenance
Baroness Reppi Collection, Rome. [1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Rome and Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] 23 June 1933; gift to the Allentown Art Museum in 1960, no. 1960.14. [1] Probably Contessa Eleanora Reppi.
Catalogue Entry
Attributed to Andrea del Sarto
Madonna and Child
K253
Allentown, Pa., Allentown Art Museum (60.14.KB), since 1960.(1) Wood. 35 5/8 x 26 1/4 in. (90.5 X 66.7 cm.). Fair condition; some restorations in Virgin's red dress, the green curtain, and the flesh tones; cleaned 1952. The figures, although more characteristic of Andrea del Sarto in expression,(2) are somewhat similar in type to those in K1110 (Fig. 307) by Franciabigio. K253 may be later, about 1530, and may be by someone in Andrea's circle other than Franciabigio. The three-quarter-length figure of the Virgin must have been influenced by Raphael's St. Catherine in the National Gallery, London; it is in some respects even closer in pose to Leonardo's standing Leda. In the background is a classical reference to chastity: Daphne fleeing from Apollo. Provenance: Contessa Eleonora Reppi, Rome. Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1933 – exhibited: 'Golden Gate International Exposition,' Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, Calif, 1940, no. 101 of catalogue, as Andrea del Sarto; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1952-54.(3)
References
(1) Catalogue by F. R. Shapley, 1960, p. 58, as Andrea del Sarto. (2) K253 has been attributed to Andrea del Sarto by G. Fiocco, R. Longhi, R. van Marle, F. M. Perkins, O. Siren, and A. Venturi (in ms. opinions), and tentatively to Andrea by B. Berenson (Italian Pictures ... Florentine School, vol. I, 1963, p. 7). S. J. Freedberg (Andrea del Sarto, Catalogue Raisonné, 1963, p. 219), dating it in the 1530's, attributes it to a pupil or imitator of Andrea, perhaps the one who painted a Holy Family formerly attributed to Andrea in the Doria Gallery, Rome. (3) Catalogue by W. E. Suida, 1952, p. 36, as Andrea del Sarto.