Madonna and Christ Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist and Three Angels
Madonna and Christ Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist and Three Angels
- Artist
- Domenico Ghirlandaio
- Artist Dates
- 1449-1494
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Madonna and Christ Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist and Three Angels
- Date
- about 1485 / 1500
- Medium
- tempera on panel
- Dimensions
- diameter: 85.1 cm (33-1/2 in)
- K Number
- K267
- Repository
- Birmingham Museum of Art
- Accession Number
- 1961.97
- Notes
Provenance
William Hekking, the Netherlands. (Leo Nardus [1868-1955], Amsterdam); sold 1899 to Peter Arrell Brown Widener [1834-1915], Philadelphia; sold 1910 to (Arthur J. Sulley [d. 1930], London). [1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955] Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 28 June 1933 as Sebastiani Mainardi; gift to the National Gallery of Art in 1939; deaccessioned in 1952 and returned to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation; gift to Birmingham Museum of Art in 1961, no. 61.97. [1] According to Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Volume 1, Italian Paintings XIII-XV Century, London, 1966, p. 127. Shapley disputes the provenance cited in Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington 1941, p. 121, which includes Earl Spencer, Althorp House and Charles Fairfax Murray.