Madonna and Child Between Saints Jerome and Augustine
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Exhibition History
Exhibition of Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of
Art, Washington, D.C., December 10, 1961-February 4, 1962, no.37.
Frances Anne Hardinge (1819–1891), England, by 1891 [1];
Acquired from Hardinge by Count Mario Tadini Buoninsegni (b. 1889), Siena;
With Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878-1955), Rome and Florence, by June 1, 1936;
Purchased from Bonacossi by Samuel H. Kress (1863-1955), New York, June 1, 1936-1939;
His gift to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1939-1952;
Returned by the National Gallery of Art to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1952-1961;
Its gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1961.
NOTES:
[1] A printed coat of arms that was formerly attached to the back of the panel (now preserved in NAMA registration files) was identified as that of Frances Anne Hardinge by Angela Howard, Heirloom and Howard, Ltd., Chippenham, Wiltshire (see letter from Howard dated March 19, 1994, NAMA curatorial files). According to Howard, the accompanying inscription reads: Frances…/Hamilton G… from Aunt M.
Written attestations by Bernard Berenson, Francis Mason Perkins, Raimond Van Marle, c. 1936, NAMA registrar's files, as “Giovanni di Paolo.”
Written attestations by Giuseppe Fiocco, Roberto Longhi, William E. Suida, Adolfo Venturi,1936, NAMA registrar's files, as “Giovanni di Paolo.”
John Pope-Hennessy, Giovanni di Paolo, 1403–1483 (London: Chatto and Windus, 1937), 33, 53n82, (repro.), as “Giovanni di Paolo.”
Cesare Brandi, “Giovanni di Paolo”, Le Arti 19, no. 5 (Spring 1941): 246n38.
National Gallery of Art: Book of Illustrations (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1941), 116, (repro.), as “Giovanni di Paolo.”
National Gallery of Art: Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1941), 84-85, as “Giovanni di Paolo, 1445/50.”
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, Catalogue of the Samuel H. Kress Collection of Italian Paintings and Sculptures (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1952), 14-15, (repro.), as “Giovanni di Paolo.”
Exhibition of Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, exh. cat. (Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1961), unpaginated, as “Giovanni di Paolo.”
Thomas B. Hess, "Culture as the Great American Dream," Art News 60, no. 8 (December 1961): 52.
Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century (London: Phaidon, 1966), 148-49, (repro.), as “Giovanni di Paolo, c. 1450.”
Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, 2nd rev. ed., vol. 1 (1897, 1907, 1932; London and New York: Clarendon Press, 1968), 177, as “Giovanni di Paolo.”
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972), 89, 90, 303, 333, 372, 375, 379, 414, 430, 589, as “Giovanni di Paolo.”
Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 260, as “Giovanni di Paolo.”
Letter from Andrew T. Ladis to Eliot Rowlands, January 28, 1987, NAMA curatorial files, as “probably workshop of Giovanni di Paolo.”
Letter from John Pope-Hennessy to Eliot Rowlands, May 17, 1988, NAMA curatorial files, as “possibly a modern forgery.”
Gaudenz Freuler, Manifestatori Delle Cose Miracolose: Arte Italiana Del '300 e '400 Da
Collezioni in Svizzera E Nel Liechtenstein;, exh. cat. (Einsiedeln: Eidolon, 1991), 92, 94, (repro.).
Peter Anselm Riedl and Max Seidel eds., Die Kirchen von Siena, vol. 2, pt. 1.2, Oratorio della Carità-S. Dominico (Munich: Bruckmann, 1992), 561.
Eliot Rowlands, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Italian paintings 1300-1800 (Kansas City: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 18, 27, 99-107, (repro.).
