Madonna of Humility
Madonna of Humility
- Artist
- Jacopo della Quercia
- Artist Dates
- 1371/1374-1438
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Madonna of Humility
- Date
- c. 1400
- Medium
- marble with traces of gilding, with traces of gilding
- Dimensions
- 58.4 x 48.8 x 28.3 cm (23 x 19 3/16 x 11 1/8 in)
- K Number
- K1384
- Repository
- National Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 1960.5.2
- Notes
Provenance
Prince Ercolani, Bologna. Art market, Vienna. (Jacques Seligmann, Paris and New York, stock nos. 1190/7782); sold February1920 to Henry Goldman [1857-1937], New York; [1] Goldman family, until at least 1938. [2] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1960 to NGA. [1] Seligmann Papers, Archives of American Art, boxes 186 and 279 (copies, NGA curatorial files). See also Germain Seligman, _Merchants of Art: 1880-1960, Eighty Years of Professional Collecting_, New York, 1961, pl. 27. [2] Lent from Goldman family to exhibition in Detroit in 1938.