Madonna and Child with Female Saint and Donor
Madonna and Child with Female Saint and Donor
- Artist
- Pietro degli Ingannati
- Artist Dates
- active 1529-1548
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Madonna and Child with Female Saint and Donor
- Date
- 1530-35
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 60.9 x 84.2 cm (24 x 33-1/8 in)
- K Number
- K80
- Repository
- Allentown Art Museum
- Accession Number
- 1960.007.000
- Notes
Provenance
(Julius Böhler, Munich); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 8 August 1924, as Previtali; gift to the Allentown Art Museum in 1960, no. 1960.07.
Catalogue Entry
Pietro degli Ingannati
Madonna and Child with Female Saint and Donor
K80
Allentown, Pa., Allentown Art Museum, Study Collection (60.07.KBS), since 1960. Wood. 24 X 33 1/8 in. (60.9X 84.2 cm.). Poor condition; at some time very much overcleaned, especially the donor, and badly restored. That this painting is by a follower of Giovanni Bellini is obvious. The Virgin is a Bellini type which was repeated again and again in this milieu; there are echoes of Giorgione in the landscape with its resting shepherds; and the repetition of an Ingannati model, the Virgin Martyr in K1099 (Fig. 416) explains the tendency to give K80 to Ingannati. But the poor preservation of the panel leaves the attribution uncertain. Previtali has been suggested and, more plausibly, Francesco Rizzo da Santa Croce.(1) Another version of the composition (from Saint-Soupplets), without the donor and with a landscape and saint much more closely resembling those of K1099, was shown in the 1949 'Mostra di Giovanni Bellini' in Venice, the Madonna being attributed there to Bellini and the saint to Ingannati.(2) A date of about 1530/40 may be suggested for K80. Provenance: Julius Böhler's, Munich (sold Aug. 8, 1924, as Previtali). Kress acquisition, 1924.
References
(1) K80 was classified as Previtali by Böhler. R. Longhi (in ms. opinion) gives it to the school of Bellini, perhaps Francesco da Santa Croce, c. 1520. (2) No. 123 of catalogue by R. Pallucchini, where it is reproduced.