Virgin and Child (known as the Madonna of the Carnation)

Artist Vincenzo Foppa Italian, circa 1427/1430–1515/1516

Datecirca 1460–1470

MediumTempera and gold leaf on panel

Dimensions14 1/2 x 10 in. (36.8 x 25.4 cm)
Frame: 20 1/8 x 16 x 2 1/2 in. (51.1 x 40.6 x 6.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.22

On View

On view

ProvenanceCount Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1937; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.

Published ReferencesPreliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture (Washington, DC: The National Gallery of Art, 1941), cat. no. 460.

Fernanda Wittgens, Vincenzo Foppa (Milano: A. Pizzi, 1948 [1949?]), 38, 95, illus. pl. 45.

Evelyn Sandburg-Vavalà, "Vincenzo Foppa (review of Wittgens's monograph), Burlington Magazine 93 (April 1951), 135.

Arte lombarda dai Visconti agli Sforza (exhibition catalogue) (Milan: Palazzo Reale, 1958), cat. no. 209, illus. pl. 111.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 54, illus. (b-w) 55.

Edoardo Arslan, "Vincenzo Foppa," Storia di Brescia (Brescia, 1963), Vol. 2, 935.

Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress. Collection : Italian Schools V - XVI Century, Vol. 2 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1968), 13, illus. fig. 25.

Maria Grazia Balzarini, unpublished tesi di laurea on Foppa (Istituto di Storia dell'Arte, Università degli Studi di Milano, 1991).

Maria Grazia Balzarini, Vincenzo Foppa (Milan: Editoriale Jaca Book SpA, 1997), 19-20, 156, illus. 156 and (color) 69.

Perri Lee Roberts, Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections: The South, Vol. 3 (Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2009), discussed 620, illus. (b-w) 621.

Lyle Humphrey, "Saul Among the Prophets: W.R. Valentiner, Robert L. Humber, Carl W. Hamilton, and the Italian Collection at the NCMA," Lisandra Estevez, ed., Collecting Early Modern Art (1400-1800) in the U.S. South (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 45.Exhibition HistoryWashington, DC, The National Gallery of Art, 1941-51, cat. no. 460.

Milan, Italy, Palazzo Reale, "Arte lombarda dai Visconti agli Sforza," April-June, 1958, cat.no. 209, illus. pl. 111.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "A Gift to North Carolina: Italian Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection," February 5-April 24, handout no. 8.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement

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