Madonna and Child Enthroned
Madonna and Child Enthroned
- Artist
- Giovanni da Udine
- Artist Dates
- c. 1487-1535
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Madonna and Child Enthroned
- Date
- c. 1499
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 55.2 x 43.8 cm (21-3/4 x 17-1/4 in)
- K Number
- K1196
- Repository
- Russell Library
- Notes
Provenance
(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955] Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 1 September 1939 as Giovan Battista da Udine; gift to the Adelia M. Russell Library, Alexander City, Alabama, in 1964, no. 28.1998; on loan to Birmingham Museum of Art.
Catalogue Entry
Giovanni da Udine
Madonna and Child Enthroned
K1196
Alexander City, Ala., Alexander City Public Library, since 1964. Wood. 21 3/4 x 17 1/4 in. (55.2 x 43.8 cm.). Inscribed on arm of throne at left: IOANES BATISTA DE VTINO P I499 (?) The date is unclear. Very bad condition; abraded throughout; cleaned 1962. If the reading of the date is correct, K1196 is only one year later than a Madonna and Child with Two Saints in the Correr Museum, Venice, which is inscribed IOANES DE UTINO P I498. The more or less superficial appearance of K1196 may be explained partly by the fact that the artist(1) was here making a copy: the central group of Alvise Vivarini's late, rather dull altarpiece of the Madonna and Four Saints now in the Berlin Museum was his model. Provenance: Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1939.
References
(1) K1196 has been attributed (in ms. opinions) to Giovanni Battista da Udine by G. Fiocco, R. Longhi, F. M. Perkins, W. E. Suida, and A. Venturi; to an unidentified early Venetian, by B. Berenson. Berenson later (Italian Pictures ... Venetian School, vo1. I, 1957, p. 91) lists K1196 as Giovanni Battista Grassi da Udine (the inclusion of the name Grassi seems to represent a confusion of the designation Giovanni Battista da Udine with that of a later artist in Udine, Giovanni Battista Grassi di Raffaello).