Madonna and Child Enthroned with Eight Saints and Eight Angels
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Exhibition History
Loan Exhibition: Works of Old Masters & Scottish National Portraits, Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh, Summer 1883, no. 500.
Exhibition of Works of Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1896, no.154.
Special Exhibition of Italian Paintings of the Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centuries, Cincinnati Art Museum, April 16-24, 1921, no cat.
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. 20.
Captain James Stirling, M.P. (1789–1872), Glentyan, Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, by 1872;
Inherited by his great-nephew, Graham Charles Somervell (d. 1889), Edinburgh, 1872-1887;
Purchased at his sale, Ancient and modern pictures and water-colour drawings, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, April 23, 1887, lot 151, as by Taddeo Gaddi, by Charles Butler (1822–1910), London, 1887-1911;
Purchased at his sale, Highly Important Pictures by Old Masters, Christie’s, London, May 25-26, 1911, lot 128, as by Taddeo Gaddi, by Wallis and Sons, London, 1911-no later than 1920;
Purchased from Wallis and Sons by Colonel Herbert Henry Spender Clay, M.P. (1875-1937), Ford Manor, Lingfield, Surrey, England, by March 19, 1920;
Purchased at his anonymous sale, Old Pictures and Drawings, Christie’s, London, March 19, 1920, lot 118, as by Taddeo Gaddi, by Coureau, 1920-at least 1925 [1];
Purchased from Coureau by Henry Charles Somers Somerset (1874-1945), Reigate Priory, Surrey, England, by 1931;
Purchased from Somerset by Duveen Brothers, New York, by 1931-1934;
Purchased from Duveen by Henry Goldman (1857-1937), New York, 1934-no later than May 1937;
Purchased from Goldman by Duveen Brothers, New York, by May 1937-1940;
Purchased from Duveen by Samuel H. Kress (1863-1955), New York, 1940-1943;
His gift to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943-1952;
Returned by the National Gallery of Art to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1952-1961;
Its gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1961.
NOTES:
[1] According to Jeremy Rex-Parkes, Archivist, Christie’s, London, in a letter to Eliot Rowlands, Assistant Curator, June 22, 1987, NAMA curatorial files.
Catalogue of Loan Exhibition, Edinburgh 1883: Works of Old Masters & Scottish National Portraits, exh. cat. (Edinburgh: Board of Manufactures, 1883), unpaginated, as by Taddeo Gaddi.
“Exhibition of Old Masters at Edinburgh,” Art Journal (1883): 256, as by Taddeo Gaddi.
Catalogue of the Valuable Collection of Ancient and Modern Pictures and Water-colour Drawings of James T. Gibson-Craig, Esq., Deceased, late of York Place, Edinburgh; Seventeen Pictures from the collection of Sir Henry W. Dashwood, Bart.; and a collection of Early Italian Pictures, the property of Graham Charles Somervell, Esq. (London: Christie, Manson and Woods, April 23, 1887), 24, as by Taddeo Gaddi.
Exhibition of Works of Old Masters, exh. cat. (London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1896), unpaginated, as by Taddeo Gaddi.
Joseph Archer Crowe and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in Italy, vol. 2, Giotto and the Giottesques, 2nd ed. (1903; London: John Murray, 1923), 140, as by Taddeo Gaddi.
Catalogue of Highly Important Pictures by Old Masters: The property of the late Charles Butler, Esq. (London: Christie, Manson and Woods, May 25-May 26, 1911), 44, as by Taddeo Gaddi.
Algernon Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912, vol. 1 (New York: Burt Franklin, 1912), 369, as by Taddeo Gaddi.
Catalogue of Old Pictures and Drawings from Various Sources (London: Christie, Manson and Woods, March 19, 1920), 15, as by Taddeo Gaddi.
H.C. Marillier, “Christies,” 1766-1925 (London: Constable, 1925), 184, as by Taddeo Gaddi.
Lionello Venturi, Pitture italiane in America (Milan: U. Hoepli, 1931), unpaginated, as by Bernando Daddi.
Richard Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting: The Fourteenth Century, sec. 3, vol. 4 (Berlin: Frisch, 1934), 95-96, 197, (repro.), as ascribed to a painter in the close following of Daddi.
Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America (New York: William Bradford Press, 1941), unpaginated, (repro.), as by Bernardo Daddi.
National Gallery of Art: Book of Illustrations (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1941), 93, (repro.), as by Bernardo Daddi.
National Gallery of Art: Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1941), 52-53, as by Bernardo Daddi.
Richard Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting: The Fourteenth Century, sec. 3, vol. 5 (New York: New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, 1947), 151, 157.
W.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: The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1952), 22, 23, (repro.), as by Bernardo Daddi and assistant.
Klara Steinweg, “Ein verschollenes Tabernakel von Bernardo Daddi,” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 7 (1953-55): 66, as by an immediate follower of Bernardo Daddi.
Richard Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting: The Fourteenth Century, sec. 3, vol. 8, Workshop of Bernardo Daddi (New York: New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, 1958), 19, 20n1, 205.
Exhibition of Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1961), unpaginated, as by Bernardo Daddi.
Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, vol. 1 (London: Phaidon Press, 1963), 55, as by Bernardo Daddi.
Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century (London: Phaidon Press, 1966), 26, (repro.), as by Bernardo Daddi and assistant.
Brigitte Klesse, Seidenstoffe in der italienischen Malerei des 14. Jahrhunderts (Bern: Abegg-Stiftung, 1967), 455, (repro.).
Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1972), 62, 318, 382, 392, 395, 411, 425, 427, 438, 441, 589, as by workshop of Bernardo Daddi.
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), 77, (repro.), as by Bernardo Daddi and assistant.
Richard Fremantle, Florentine Gothic Painters: from Giotto to Masaccio (London: Secker and Warburg, 1975), 56, (repro.), as by Bernardo Daddi.
Fern Rusk Shapley, Catalogue of the Italian Paintings, vol. 1 (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1979), 154n3.
Piero Torriti, La Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena: I dipinti dal XII al XV secolo, 2nd ed. (Genoa: Sagep, 1980), 228-29.
Vitaliano Tiberia, Il “museo sacro” del Cardinale Borgia a Capodimonte (Naples: Irace Print, 1982), 53-54.
Dizionario biografico degli italiani, vol. 31 (Rome: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1985), 624, as by Bernardo Daddi.
Miklós Boskovits, Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Katalog der Gemälde: Frühe italienische Malerei, ed. E. Schleier (Berlin: Gebr. Mann, 1987), 25, 251, (repro.).
Richard Offner, Miklós Boskovits, and Enrica Neri Lusanna, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting: The Fourteenth Century, sec. 3, vol. 3, The Works of Bernardo Daddi, new ed. (Florence: Giunti, 1989), 81, 165n10.
Richard Offner and Miklós Boskovits, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting: The Fourteenth Century, sec. 3, vol. 4, Bernardo Daddi, His Shop and Following, new ed. (Florence: Giunti Barbera, 1990), 297-98, 300, 439, 508, (repro.).
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), 128, 136, (repro.).
Michael Churchman and Scott Erbes, High Ideals and Aspirations: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 1933-1993 (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 87.
Elliot W. Rowlands, The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: Italian Paintings 1300-1800 (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 48-54, (repro.).
