Madonna and Child in a Landscape
Madonna and Child in a Landscape
- Artist
- Pintoricchio
- Artist Dates
- c. 1454-1513
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Madonna and Child in a Landscape
- Date
- c. 1500
- Medium
- tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- 45.4 x 34.6 cm (17-7/8 x 13-5/8 in)
- K Number
- K81
- Repository
- Russell Library
- Notes
Provenance
Church of Santa Caterina, Magnapoli, Rome, Italy. Possibly (Volterra, Florence). Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] in 1924; [1] gift to the Adelia M. Russell Library, Alexander City, Alabama on 9 June 1964, no. 27.1998; on loan to Birmingham Museum of Art. [1] According to Fer Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, volume 2, Italian Schools XV-XVI Century, London, 1968, this provenance is indicated by a notation which is reported by F. Zeri letter of 4 April 1962 to have been found recorded on an old photograph of K81 in the Gabinetto Fotografico Nazionale, Rome.
Catalogue Entry
Pintoricchio
Madonna and Child in a Landscape
K81
Alexander City, Ala., Alexander City Public Library, since 1964. Wood. 20 1/2 X 15 1/2 in. (52.1 X 39.4 cm.). Poor condition; abraded throughout; cleaned 1961. The composition would seem to have derived from Fiorenzo di Lorenzo, passed on by Pintoricchio and Antoniazzo Romano, perhaps, to the painter of K81. In connection with a recent study of Umbrian paintings in the Lindenau Museum, Altenburg,(1) K81 has been taken as an early example of the style of an anonymous Umbrian artist with Roman connections: a passage in the Signorellesque Testament of Moses in the Sistine Chapel is seen as the inspiration of the composition of the Virgin in K81. It should be noted, however, that a parallel for this Virgin may be found also in Pintoricchio's share of the Sistine Chapel Story of Moses. The head of the Virgin in K81 is reminiscent, too, of a drawing of a head (the Virgin or a saint) formerly in the Oppenheimer Collection, London.(2) The date of K81 may be near the turn of the century. Provenance: Church of Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli, Rome.(3) Possibly Volterra, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1924(?).
References
(1) F. Zeri, in Bollettino d'Arte, vol. XLIX, 1964, pp. 52 f. (2) The drawing is reproduced by R. van Marle, Italian Schools of Painting, vol. XIV, 1933, fig. 190, where it is labeled as by Pintoricchio. (3) This provenance is indicated by a notation which is reported by F. Zeri (letter of Apr. 4, 1962) to have been found recorded on an old photograph of K81 in the Gabinetto Fotografico Nazionale, Rome.