Madonna and Child
Madonna and Child
- Artist
- Ambrogio Bergognone
- Artist Dates
- c. 1460-1523
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Madonna and Child
- Date
- c. 1520s
- Medium
- tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- 45 x 30.2 cm (16-1/4 x 11-7/8 in)
- K Number
- K1275
- Repository
- Lowe Art Museum
- Accession Number
- 61.021.000
- Notes
Provenance
(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955] Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 13 March 1941; gift 1961 to the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, no. 61.021.000.
Catalogue Entry
Ambrogio Bergognone
Madonna and Child
K1275
Coral Gables, Fla., Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, University of Miami (61.21), since 1961.(1) Wood. 16 1/4 x 13 in. (45 x 33.2 cm.). Fair condition. This gives the impression of being a gay, somewhat mundane version of the serious, meditative Madonna of very similar composition in the Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan. The latter is attributed to Borgognone or to Foppa. K1275 would have been painted later, perhaps about 1520, and probably by a follower of Borgognone.(2) Its landscape with figures recalls some of Borgognone's most poetic backgrounds. Provenance: Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1941 –exhibited: 'Leonardo da Vinci,' Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Calif., June 3-July 17, 1949 (catalogue by W. E. Suida, p. 77, no. 10, as Borgognone); 'Arte Lombarda dai Visconti agli Sforza,' Palazzo Reale, Milan, Apr.-June, 1958, p. 131, no. 415, as Lombard follower of Borgognone, at the turn of the century.
References
(1) Catalogue by F. R. Shapley, p. 34, as Lombard (possibly Borgognone). (2) Suida (see Provenance, above, also in Rivista d'Arte, vol. XXXII, 1957, pp. 169 f.) has attributed K1275 to Borgognone. Later opinion (see Provenance, above) gives it to a Lombard follower.