Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child
Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child
- Artist
- Lattanzio da Rimini
- Artist Dates
- active 1492-1524
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child
- Date
- 1450-1500
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 59.4 x 77.8 cm (23-3/8 x 30-5/8 in)
- K Number
- K322
- Repository
- Snite Museum of Art
- Accession Number
- 1961.047.005
- Notes
Provenance
(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955] Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 12 June 1935; gift to the National Gallery of Art in 1939; deaccessioned in 1952 and returned to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation; gift to Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame in 1961, no. 61.47. 5.
Catalogue Entry
Lattanzio da Rimini
Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child
K322
Notre Dame, Ind., University of Notre Dame, Study Collection (61.47.5), since 1961.(1) Wood. 23 3/8 X 30 5/8 in. (59.4 X 77.8 cm.). Very blistering surface; landscape in good condition; Madonna and Child in fair condition. The figure types and the landscape are thoroughly typical of Lattanzio as seen in his signed and dated paintings of the first decade of the century.(2) Here too is Lattanzio's typical combination of influences. The composition follows, with minor variations, that of Giovanni Bellini's Madonna of the Meadow, of about 1505, in the National Gallery, London. The figures in K322 are influenced by Cima as well as Bellini, and the landscape, with the small figures passing silently across the background, pays homage to Carpaccio. The date is probably about 1510.
References
(1) Catalogue, 1962, p. unnumbered, as Lattanzio. (2) K322 has been attributed to Lattanzio by G. Fiocco, R. Longhi, F. M. Perkins, A. Venturi (in ms. opinions), B. Berenson (Italian Pictures ... Venetian School, vol. I, 1957, p. 95), and F. Heinemann (Giovanni Bellini e i belliniani, vol. I, 1962, pp. 18, 98); see also note 4, below.