Madonna and Child with Saint John
Madonna and Child with Saint John
- Artist
- Giuliano Bugiardini
- Artist Dates
- 1475-1554
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Madonna and Child with Saint John
- Date
- 1523 / 25
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 113 x 81.8 cm (44-1/2 x 32 -3/16 in)
- K Number
- K162
- Repository
- Allentown Art Museum
- Accession Number
- 1960.010.000
- Notes
Provenance
Oratorio della Chiesa di Santa Maria di Galliera, Bologna, 1523/25. (Charles Fairfax Murray [1849-1919] London), after 1890. [1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Rome and Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 17 July 1931; gift to the Allentown Art Museum in 1960, no. 1960.10. [1] The painting was not included in sales from Fairfax Murray's estate held at Christie's, London, 30 January - 2 February 1920; Sotheby's, London, 10 May 1922; Cassirer & Helbing, Berlin, 6-7 November 1929.
Catalogue Entry
Giuliano Bugiardini
Madonna and Child with Saint John
K162
Allentown, Pa., Allentown Art Museum (60.10.KB), since 1960.(1) Wood. 44 1/2 X32 in. (113 X 81.3 cm.). Inscribed at lower center with the abbreviated signature: .IVL. .FL. .F. Julianus Florentinus Faciebat). Good condition except for a few restorations; cleaned 1960. The attribution to Bugiardini is accepted(2) and the date is believed to be about 1510, a little later than Raphael's Madonna of the Palm, to which it is related, and a decade earlier than the elaborated version of K162 in the Uffizi, Florence, which is dated 1520 and signed in full by Bugiardini. The genrelike motive – the Virgin is about to pass a date from the Christ Child to St. John – may refer to the Virgin's role as mediatrix between her Son and mankind. Provenance: Charles Fairfax Murray, London. Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1931 – exhibited: 'Italian Paintings Lent by Mr. Samuel H. Kress,' Oct. 1932, Atlanta, Ga., through June 1935, Charlotte, N.C., p. 24 of catalogue, as Bugiardini; 'Golden Gate International Exposition: San Francisco, Calif, 1940, no. 104 of catalogue, as Bugiardini.
References
(1) Catalogue by F. R. Shapley, 1960, p. 56, as Bugiardini. (2) K162 has been attributed to Bugiardini by W. von Bode, G. Fiocco, R. Longhi, R. van Marle, F. M. Perkins, W. E. Suida, A. Venturi (in ms. opinions), S. J. Freedberg (Paintings of the High Renaissance, vol. I, 1961, p. 486), and B. Berenson (Italian Pictures ... Florentine School, vol. I, 1963, p. 44, and 1936 list).