Adoration of the Magi
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The Sixteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: Italian Paintings of the XIV to XVI Century, The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI, March 8-30, 1933, no. 14.
Reconstructing Gherardo Starnina's Lucca Altarpiece, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, December 17-March 7, 1998-1999.
With Kleinberger Gallery, Paris, by 1911;
Purchased from Kleinberger by Ali Loebl, Paris, by 1911 [1];
Purchased from Loebl by Stephan Bourgeois (1881-1964), New York, 1911 [2];
With Demotte, New York, 1923 [3];
With Bourgeois Galleries, New York, 1926 [4];
With Robert Langton Douglas (1864-1951), London, by 1927 [5];
Purchased from Douglas by Jules S. Bache (1861-1944), New York, 1927;
With Walter P. Fearon (d. 1935), New York, by 1928;
With John Levy Galleries, New York, by 1930-May 23, 1938;
Purchased from Levy by Samuel H. Kress (1863-1955), New York, May 23, 1938-1939;
His gift to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1939-1952;
Returned by the National Gallery to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1952;
Its gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1952.
NOTES:
[1] Loebl was part of the Kleinberger Gallery in Paris. The painting, however, does not appear in the Kleinberger Gallery card file, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Department of European Paintings, either as Giovanni dal Ponte or as the Master of the Bambino Vispo.
[2] Information from Bourgeois through John Levy Galleries, according to a photograph in the Frick Art Reference Library, New York.
[3] Information from Demotte, according to a photograph in the Frick Art Reference Library, New York.
[4] Information from Bourgeois Galleries, according to a photograph in the Frick Art Reference Library, New York.
[5] According to Douglas, in a letter to Edward Fowles, May 1, 1941, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, Duveen Brothers Records, box 244.
Written attestation from Carlo Gamba, undated (prior to 1918), NAMA registrar's files, as by Giovanni dal Ponte.
Letter from Stephan Bourgeois to Jules Bache, January 11, 1927, NAMA curatorial files, as by Giovanni dal Ponte.
Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. 9 (The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1927), 196, 198, as by Master of the Bambino Vispo.
Written attestation from Robert Langton Douglas to Walter Fearon, December 1928, NAMA curatorial files, as by Giovanni dal Ponte.
Bernard Berenson, “Missing Pictures of the Florentine Trecento,” in Homeless Paintings of the Renaissance, ed. Hanna Kiel (1932; repr., Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1969), 146, as by Master of Bambino Vespo.
Bernard Berenson, "Quadri senza casa: Il Trecento Fiorentino, V,” Dedalo 12 (1932): 181, 184, (repro.), as by Master of the Bambino Vispo.
The Sixteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: Italian Paintings of the XIV to XVI Century, exh. cat. (Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1933), unpaginated, as by Giovanni dal Ponte.
Georg Pudelko, "The Master of the Bambino Vispo," Art in America 26 (April 1938): 46, 54n21, (repro.).
Written attestations from Bernard Berenson and Roberto Longhi, undated (ca. 1938-39), NAMA registrar's files as by Master of the Bambino Vispo.
Written attestation from Francis Mason Perkins, undated (ca. 1938-39), NAMA registrar's files, as by a follower of Giovanni dal Ponte.
Written attestations from Giusseppe Fiocco and William E. Suida, 1939, NAMA registrar's files, as by Giovanni dal Ponte.
National Gallery of Art: Book of Illustrations (Washington, D.C., 1941), 147.
National Gallery of Art: Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, 2nd ed. (Washington, D.C., 1941), 128, as by Master of the Bambino Vispo.
William E. Suida, Catalogue of The Samuel H. Kress Collection of Italian Paintings and Sculptures: The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1952), 26, 27, (repro.).
Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, vol. 1 (London and New York: Phaidon, 1963), 140.
Germain Bazin, ed., Kindlers Malerei Lexikon, vol. 1 (Zurich: Kinder Verlag, 1964): 192.
Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century (London: Phaidon, 1966), 91, (repro.).
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972), 125, 272, 589.
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), 79, (repro.).
Cornelia Syre, Studien zum "Maestro del Bambino Vispo" und Starnina (Bonn: Habelt, 1979), 115n292, 116, 123, as by pupil of Starnina.
Jeanne van Waadenoijen, Stamina e il gotico internazionale a Firenze (Florence, Istituto universitario olandese di storia dell'arte, 1983), 60, 60n1, 61-62, (repro.), as by workshop of Starnina.
Mathieu Hériard Dubreuil, Valencia y el gotico internacional (Valencia: Edicions Alfons el Magnànim, 1987), 1: 49-51, 89; 2: unpaginated, (repro.).
Ann T. Lurie, "In Search of a Valencian Madonna by Starnina," The Bulletin of The Cleveland Museum of Art 76, no. 10 (December 1989): 373.
Marvin Eisenberg, Lorenzo Monaco (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), 33n114, as by workshop of Starnina.
Giovanni Romano, Da Biduino ad Algardi: Pittura e scultura a confronto, exh. cat. (Turin: Antichi Maestri Pittori, 1990), 19, 23, 18, (repro.).
Walter Angelelli and Andrea G. De Marchi, Pittura dal duecento al primo cinquecento nelle fotografie di Girolamo Bombelli (Milan: Electa, 1991), 261, (repro.).
Conversation with John Shearman, April 10, 1992, notes, NAMA Curatorial files, as by an assistant of Starnina. Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 138, (repro.).
Eliot W. Rowlands, The Collection of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Italian Paintings, (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 18, 26-27, 77-83, 79, (repro.).
Carl Brandon Strehlke, Italian paintings, 1250-1450, in the John G. Johnson Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2004), 395, 398, (repro.).
