The Coronation of the Virgin
The Coronation of the Virgin
- Artist
- Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano
- Artist Dates
- active 1418, died after 1422
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- The Coronation of the Virgin
- Date
- c. 1420
- Medium
- panel
- Dimensions
- 82.9 x 53.3 cm (32-5/8 x 21 in)
- K Number
- K59
- Repository
- Howard University Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- 61.148.P
- Notes
Provenance
Grimaldi, Cadiz, Spain; (sold, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions Haus, Berlin, 14-15 October 1913, no. 89). (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955] Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 15 May 1929; gift 1939 to the National Gallery of Art; deaccessioned 1952 and returned to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation; gift to Howard University Gallery of Art in 1961, Washington, DC, no. 61.148.P.
Catalogue Entry
Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano
The Coronation of the Virgin
K59
Washington, D.C., Howard University, Study Collection (61.148.P), since 1961.(1) Wood. 32 5/8 X 21 in. (82.9 X 53.3 cm.). Good condition. The attribution is based on stylistic affmity with the Madonna and Angels in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, which is signed by the artist and dated 1420, a date which is approximately correct for K59 also.(2) The style of the work recalls such artists as Lorenzo Veneziano. Even the choice of subject is significant: the Coronation of the Virgin early became a favorite theme in Venetian painting. Provenance: Contini Bonacossi, Rome. Kress acquisition, 1929 – exhibited: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (145), 1941-52.(3)
References
(1) Catalogue, 1961, no. I, as Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano. (2) K59 has been attributed to Pietro di Domenico by R. Longhi (in Vita Artistica, vol. II, 1927, pp. 18 ff.), L. Serra (L'Arte neUe Marche, 1934, p. 381), B. Berenson, G. Fiocco, R. van Marle, F. M. Perkins, O. Sirén, W. E. Suida, and A. Venturi (in ms. opinions). (3) Preliminary Catalogue, 1941, p. 157, as Pietro di Domenico da Montepulciano.