Madonna and Child with Swallow
Madonna and Child with Swallow
- Artist
- Francesco d'Antonio Banchi
- Artist Dates
- active 1393-1433
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Madonna and Child with Swallow
- Date
- about 1420-25
- Medium
- tempera and gold on panel
- Dimensions
- 114.5 x 58 cm (45 x 22-7/8 in)
- K Number
- K543
- Repository
- Denver Art Museum
- Accession Number
- 1961.157
- Notes
Provenance
Church of San Domenico, Pisa. Giuseppe Toscanelli [1828-1891], Pisa. [1] Private Collection, Munich. (Julius Böhler, Munich); sold 1904 to Emil Weinberger, Vienna; (his sale, J.C. Wawra, Vienna, 22-24 October 1929). (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955] Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 18 June 1937; gift 1939 to the National Gallery of Art in 1939; deaccessioned in 1952 and returned to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation; gift 1961 to Denver Art Museum, no. 1961.157. [1] Not inlcuded in the 1883 sale of the Toscanelli collection in Florence.
Catalogue Entry
Francesco d'Antonio Banchi
Madonna and Child with Swallow
K543
Denver, Colo., Denver Art Museum (E-IT-18-XV-928), since 1954.(1) Wood. 44 3/8 X 21 1/4 in. (112.7 X 54 cm.). Abraded throughout and some losses of paint. Two panels with pairs of saints in the Museum at Pisa have been recognized as having once flanked K543 to form a triptych.(2) Since one of the saints is a Dominican and since the side panels came from the Church of San Domenico, Pisa, the triptych was probably painted for that church. Comparison with signed and dated paintings by the artist places K543 about 1420. Provenance: Probably Church of San Domenico, Pisa. Probably Giuseppe Toscanelli, Pisa (nineteenth century).(3) Private Collection, Munich. Emile Weinberger, Vienna (bought from Julius Böhler's, Munich, 1904) – exhibited: 'Renaissanceausstellung,' Vienna, 1924, no. 107 of catalogue, as Pard Spinelli. Weinberger sale, C. J. Wawra's, Vienna, Oct. 22-24, 1929, no. 453 of catalogue by L. Baldass, as Francesco d' Antonio. Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1938 – exhibited: National Gallery of Art (427) , 1941-51.(4)
References
(1) Catalogue by W. E. Suida, 1954, p. 16, as Francesco d' Antonio. (2) The association of K543 with the Pisa panels was first recognized by F. Zeri (in Bollettino d'Arte, vol. XXXIV, 1949, pp. 22 1f). K543 was first published by O. Siren (Lorenzo Monaco, 1905, p. 174) as Parri Spinelli. Later Siren (in Burlington Magazine, vol. XLIX, 1926, pp. 123 ff) and also T. von Frimmel (in Blätter für Gemäldekunde, Sept. 1926, p. 124) recognized that it was by the painter who worked in the Church of Figline (now identified as Francesco d'Antonio). Longhi (op. cit.), Zeri (op. cit.) and B. Berenson (Italian Pictures ... Florentine School, vol. I, 1963, p. 62), as well as (in ms. opinions) G. Fiocco, F. M. Perkins tentatively, W. E. Suida, and A. Venturi, have attributed K543 to Francesco d' Antonio. (3) See Zeri, op. cit., pp. 25 f. If K543 is the painting to which it seems to correspond in the Toscanelli Collection, then the strip at the bottom which shows in old reproductions (cf. Burlington Magazine, cited in note 2, above) was presumably once inscribed with the artist's signature. (4) Preliminary Catalogue, 1941, pp. II f, as Francesco d' Antonio Banchi.