Virgin of the Immaculate Conception
Framed: 64 × 55 × 3 inches (162.56 × 139.7 × 7.62 cm)
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Spanish Painting, Royal Academy, London, November 1920-January 1921, no. 86.
Old Masters from Midwest Museums, Grand Rapids Art Gallery, Michigan, December 1,1948-January 2, 1949.
Painting in Spain 1650-1700, A Selection from North American Collections, Art Museum, Princeton University, April 18-June 20,1982; Detroit Institute of Arts, July 15-September 19, 1982.
Velázquez. Murillo. Sevilla., Fundación Focus-Abengoa, Sevilla, Spain, November 4-April 2, 2016-2017.
Giovanni Bielato (d. 1674), Genoa, by 1674;
Bequeathed by Belato to the Convento dei Cappuccini, Genoa, 1674-June 1805 [1];
Purchased from the Convento dei Cappuccini, through Giovanni Battista Paroldo and James Irvine (1757-1831), by William Buchanan (1777-1864) and Arthur Champernowne (1767-1819), London, June 1805;
Purchased from Buchanan and Champernowne by Walsh Porter, 1805;
M. M. Zachary, London, by March 31, 1838;
Purchased at his sale, Pictures, Christie, Manson and Woods, London, March 31, 1838, lot 56, as Assumption of the Virgin, by Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780-1863), Lansdowne House, London, 1838-1863;
By descent to his son, Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 4th Marquess of Lansdowne (1816–1866), Lansdowne House, London, 1863-1866;
By descent to his son, Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845–1927), Lansdowne House, London, 1866-1927;
By descent to his son, Henry William Edmund Petty-Fitzmaurice, 6th Marquess of Lansdowne (1872–1936), Lansdowne House, London and Bowood House, Wiltshire, 1927-March 7, 1930;
Purchased at his sale, Ancient and modern pictures: the property of the most Hon. the Marquess of Lansdowne, Christie, Manson and Woods, lot 54, March 7, 1930, by the dealer Frank T. Sabin, London, 1930;
Purchased from Sabin, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1930.
NOTES:
[1] According to R. A. Cecil, Assistant to the Director, The Wallace Collection, in a letter to Ralph T. Coe, Assistant Director, November 12, 1971, NAMA curatorial files.
W. Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, with a Chronological History of The Importation of Pictures by the Great Masters into England since the French Revolution, vol. 2 (London: R. Ackermann, 1824), 131, 133, 137, 140, 144, 172.
Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of the Chief Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, Illuminated Mss., etc. etc., vol. 2, (London: John Murray, 1854), 152.
Anna Brownell Jameson, Legends of the Madonna as Represented in the Fine Arts: Forming the Third Series of Sacred and Legendary Art (London: Longsmans Green, 1867), 50.
Ellen E. Minor, Murillo (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1882), 75.
Charles Boyd Curtis, Velazquez and Murillo: A Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the Works of Don Diego de Silva Velazquez and Bartolomé Estéban Murillo (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1883), no. 38.
Jameson, Mrs. Jameson's Catalogue: Private Picture Galleries (1884).
Paul Lefort, Murillo et ses élèves, suivi du Catalogue raisonné de ses principaux ouvrages. (Paris: J. Rouam and Cie, 1892), no. 38.
Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Belonging to the Marquess of Lansdowne, K.G. at Lansdowne House, London and Bowood, Wilts (London, 1897), 66.
Carl Justi, Murillo (Leipzig: E.A. Seemann, 1904), 52.
August Liebmann Mayer, "Murillo: des Meisters Werke in 287 Abb.," Klassiker der Kunst in Gesamtausgaben 22 (1912): 292.
Elías Tormo y Monzó, La Immaculada y el Arte Español (Madrid: Hauser y Menet, 1915), 52, 55, (repro.).
Exhibition of Spanish Paintings at the Royal Academy: November 1920-January 1921, exh. cat., (London: W. Clowes and Sons, Printers, 1920), no. 86, p. 67.
Algernon Graves, Art Sales from Early in the Eighteenth Century to Early in the Twentieth Century (Mostly Old Master and Early English Pictures), vol. 2 (1921), 265.
Marquess of Lansdowne Collection, Sale, Christie's, (March 7, 1930): 13, (54).
"A Treasure Island of Art Masterpieces," The Kansas City Visitor (October 1931): 7, (repro.).
Alfred M. Frankfurter, "The Paintings in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art," The Art News (December 9, 1933).
Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 33, 36, (repro.).
The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 2nd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1941), 37, (repro.).
The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 53, (repro.).
Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 91, (repro.).
Marilyn Stokstad, "Spanish Art from the Middle Ages to the Nineteenth Century", Apollo 96, no. 130 (Dec., 1972): 9, 34, (repro.).
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, 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), 131, (repro.).
John D. Morse, Old Master Paintings in North America: Over 3000 Masterpieces by 50 Great Artists (New York: Abbeville Press, 1979). Christopher Wright, Italian, French and Spanish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century (London: Frederick Warne, 1981).
Edward J. Sullivan, Nina A. Mallory, Painting in Spain, 1650-1700, from North American Collections, exh. cat. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1982), 91-92, 144, (repro.).
Hugh Brigstocke, "James Irvine: A Scottish Artist in Italy. Picture Buying in Italy for William Buchanan and Arthur Champernowne," The Walpole Society 74 (London: the Walpole Soceity, 2012).
Hugh Brigstocke, "James Irvine: Picture Buying in Italy for William Buchanan and Arthur Champernowne," in Inge Reist, ed., British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response: Reflections Across the Pond (London: Ashgate, 2014).
