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Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child (1450-1500)
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Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child (1450-1500)
Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child (1450-1500)
Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child (1450-1500)
Public Domain
Artist
Lattanzio da Rimini
Artist Dates
active 1492-1524
Artist Nationality
Italian
Title
Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child
Date
1450-1500
Medium
oil on panel
Dimensions
59.4 x 77.8 cm (23-3/8 x 30-5/8 in)
K Number
K322
Repository
Snite Museum of Art
Accession Number
1961.047.005
Notes

Provenance

(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955] Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 12 June 1935; gift to the National Gallery of Art in 1939; deaccessioned in 1952 and returned to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation; gift to Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame in 1961, no. 61.47. 5.

Catalogue Entry

Lattanzio da Rimini
Madonna Adoring the Sleeping Child
K322

Notre Dame, Ind., University of Notre Dame, Study Collection (61.47.5), since 1961.(1) Wood. 23 3/8 X 30 5/8 in. (59.4 X 77.8 cm.). Very blistering surface; landscape in good condition; Madonna and Child in fair condition. The figure types and the landscape are thoroughly typical of Lattanzio as seen in his signed and dated paintings of the first decade of the century.(2) Here too is Lattanzio's typical combination of influences. The composition follows, with minor variations, that of Giovanni Bellini's Madonna of the Meadow, of about 1505, in the National Gallery, London. The figures in K322 are influenced by Cima as well as Bellini, and the landscape, with the small figures passing silently across the background, pays homage to Carpaccio. The date is probably about 1510. 

References

(1) Catalogue, 1962, p. unnumbered, as Lattanzio. (2) K322 has been attributed to Lattanzio by G. Fiocco, R. Longhi, F. M. Perkins, A. Venturi (in ms. opinions), B. Berenson (Italian Pictures ... Venetian School, vol. I, 1957, p. 95), and F. Heinemann (Giovanni Bellini e i belliniani, vol. I, 1962, pp. 18, 98); see also note 4, below.

Catalogue Volume

Italian Paintings XV – XVI Century