The Virgin and Child
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Sir Francis Cook, 1st Baronet (1817-1901), Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, England, by 1901;
By descent to his son, Wyndham Francis Cook (1860-1905), London, 1901-1905;
By inheritance to his wife, Frederica Evelyn Stillwell Cook (née Freeland, d. 1925), London, 1905-1925;
By descent to her son, Humphrey Wyndham Cook (1893-1978), London, 1925;
Purchased at his sale, An important collection of objects of art of the Middle Ages and renaissance, the property of Humphrey W. Cook, esq.: being a portion of the celebrated collection formed by the late Sir Francis Cook, Bart., Christie, Manson and Woods, London, July 8, 1925, lot 175, by ‘D’ [1];
With Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co., on joint account with Brummer Gallery, New York, stock no. H101, October 29, 1930-March 31, 1934 [2];
Purchased from Arnold Seligmann, Rey and Co. and Brummer Gallery, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.
NOTES:
[1] According to Jeff Pilkington, Principal Researcher, Christie’s Archives, in an email to MacKenzie Mallon, Specialist, Provenance, January 16, 2017, NAMA curatorial files, the auctioneer’s book lists the buyer as simply ‘D’. Possible buyers could include the dealer Durlacher Brothers or the Duke of Marlborough, both of whom were bidding in the sale.
[2] The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Cloisters Library and Archives, Brummer Gallery Records, Gothic and Renaissance bronzes, dinanderie, iron, ivory, and silver, Object inventory card number H101.
Kansas City Times, May 14, 1934, clipping, NAMA curatorial files.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 87, (repro.), as Madonna and Child.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 110, (repro.), as Madonna and Child.
R.H. Randall, The Golden Age of Ivory: Gothic Ivory Carvings in North American Collections (New York: Hudson Hills, 1993), 80-1, (repro.), as The Virgin and Child.
Peter Barnet, ed., Images in Ivory: Precious Objects of the Gothic Age, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1997), (repro.).
