Adoration of the Christ Child
Adoration of the Christ Child
- Artist
- Gherardo di Giovanni di Miniato del For a
- Artist Dates
- 1445-1497
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Adoration of the Christ Child
- Date
- c. 1495
- Medium
- oil and gold on panel
- Dimensions
- diameter: 94.6 cm (37-1/4 in)
- K Number
- K1049
- Repository
- Seattle Art Museum
- Accession Number
- 61.165
- Notes
Provenance
Possibly Private Collection, Milan, as Piero di Cosimo. [1] John Rushout, 2nd Lord Northwick, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham; (his sale, Phillips Son and Neal, London, held at Thirlestand House, 26 July - 30 August 1859, day fifteen, no 1512, as by Filippo Lippi). [2] (Possibly A.S. Drey, Munich) in 1920. [3] ( J.C.W. Sawbridge-Erle-Drax, Esq., Olantigh,’ Wye, Kent; (sold, Christie’s London, 28 June 1929, no. 95, as Filippo Lippi). Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, [1878-1955] Rome- Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 18 October 1936; gift 1961 to the Seattle Art Museum of Art, no. 61.165. [1] According to Mason Perkins, as cited in Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Italian Paintings XV-XVI, Phaidon, 1968, p. 121. [2] Northwick and Drax sales according to Everett Fahy, 1980, Seattle Art Museum Curatorial Files. [3] A tondo of this subject listed with Drey as of 1920 in Raimond van Marle, Italian Schools of Painting, Vol XI, 1929, p. 614. This painting was not included in the liquidation sale of A.S. Drey held at Paul Graupe, Berlin, 17 June 1936.
Catalogue Entry
Gherardo di Giovanni di Miniato del For a
Adoration of the Christ Child
K1049
Seattle, Wash., Seattle Art Museum (It 37/R 7347.1), since 1952.(1) Wood. Diameter, 37 1/4 in. (94.6 cm.). Excellent condition except for a few restorations. Attributions to both Cosimo Rosselli and Piero di Cosimo have been proposed for this tondo. It is more convincingly ascribed to an unidentified painter, working around 1500, who was stylistically related to both these masters.(2) His hand has been recognized in another painting, a similar tondo formerly in the Fairfax Murray Collection, Florence.(3) A relationship may be suggested also to the Master of the Lathrop Tondo (K270, Fig. 292). Provenance: Private Collection, Milan, as Piero di Cosimo.(4) Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1936 – exhibited: Texas Centennial Museum, College of Mines and Metallurgy, El Paso, Tex., Dec. 7, 1940-Jan. 1, 1941, as Cosimo Rosselli.
References
(1) Catalogue by W. E. Suida, 1952, no. 14, and 1954, p. 38, as Cosimo Rosselli. (2) K1049 has been attributed to Cosimo Rosselli by G. Fiocco, R. Longhi, and tentatively by F. M. Perkins (in ms. opinions); to Piero di Cosimo by A. Venturi (in ms. opinion); and to an unidentified Florentine between Rosselli and Piero di Cosimo by B. Berenson (Italian Pictures ... Florentine School, vol. 1, 1963, p. 222). (3) Reproduced by Berenson (op. cit., vol. II, pl. 1024), who notes the identity of authorship (ibid., vol. I, p. 222). (4) Information given by F. M. Perkins (in ms.).