Madonna and Child
Madonna and Child
- Artist
- Carlo Crivelli
- Artist Dates
- c. 1430/1435-1495
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Madonna and Child
- Date
- c. 1490
- Medium
- tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- painted surface: 32.8 x 24.7 cm (12 15/16 x 9 3/4 in)
- K Number
- K481
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1939.1.264
- Notes
Provenance
Eugen Miller von Aichholz [1835-1919], Vienna. [1] Camillo Castiglioni, Vienna, by 1924; [2] (his sale, Frederik Muller & Co., Amsterdam, 17-20 November 1925, no. 10); purchased by (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London and New York) for Mme E. ten Cate, Enschede, The Netherlands; purchased April 1930 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); [3] sold 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; [4] gift 1939 to NGA. [1] _Collections Camillo Castiglioni de Vienne_, 3 vols., Frederik Muller & Cie., Amsterdam, 1925: 1:3. According to a memorandum of 7 April 1949 (in NGA curatorial files), William Suida recalled that about 1910 von Aichholz told him he had bought this picture, perhaps around 1890, from a nobleman in a castle in the Romagna, Italy. [2] Castiglioni lent the painting to the 1924 exhibition in Vienna. [3] The negotiations for the painting were begun in February 1930, and are documented in a series of messages between Duveen Brothers' offices in New York, Paris, and London. The sale was concluded by 15 April 1930, when the Paris office cabled New York: "Concluded Crivelli...plus 10 percent for Venturi. Funds must be paid immediately...as are warned if payment delayed after holidays lady may change her mind." (Copies are in NGA curatorial files; Box 234, Folder 10, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles). See also Franz Drey, _Carlo Crivelli und seine Schule_. Munich, 1927: 122-123, and Pietro Zampetti, _Carlo Crivelli_, Florence, 1986: 287. [4] The Duveen Brothers letter confirming the sale of twenty-four paintings, including NGA 1939.1.264, is dated 9 March 1937; the provenance is given as "Ten Cate Collection" (copy in NGA curatorial files; Box 474, Folder 5, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles).