Panel from an altarpiece: The Mourning Virgin

Artist Pietro Perugino Italian, active in Tuscany, Umbria, and Rome, circa 1450–1523

Datecirca 1520

MediumTempera on panel

DimensionsDiameter.: 8 in. (20.3 cm)
Frame: Diam. 13 1/2 x Depth 3 in. (34.3 x 7.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.33

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Provenance[Probably Sir Francis Cook (1817-1901), 1st Bart., Visconde de Monserrate, Portugal, Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey; by inheritance to his son Sir Frederick Cook, 2nd Bart., Richmond, Surrey; sold or exchanged to Sir John Charles Robinson (1853-1913), London; [his son, Charles Newton Robinson?]; sold, Robinson estate sale, Rudolf Lepke, Berlin, March 31, 1914, no. 55, ill. pl. 16, as Pietro Perugino Vanucci, from the collection of Sir Frederick Cook; Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1938; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.Published ReferencesCrowe and Cavalcaselle, A New History of Painting in Italy, 3 vols. (London: 1864-1866), Vol. 3 (1866), 251 (saw at Dudley House, London)

Crowe and Cavalcaselle, Storia della pittura in Italia 9 (Florence: 1902), 286.

E. Calzini, "La raccolta Duranti di Montefortino," Rassegna bibliografica dell'Arte italiana 7 (1904), 13.

Bernhard Berenson, ________________________ (1909), 220.

Luigi Serra, Le Gallerie comunali delle Marche (Rome: 1925), 113.

Ettore Camesasca, Tutta la pittura del Perugino (Milan: 1959), 162.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 74, illus. (b-w) 75, fig. A (as by Perugino).

Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV - XVI Century, Vol. 2 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1968), 100, illus. fig 243.

Bernard Berenson, ________________________________ (1968), 331.

C. Castellaneta and Ettore Camesasca, Perugino (Milan: 1969), 122.

Daniela Ferriani, "Un tondo della bottega del Perugino," in Urbino e le Marche prima e dopo Raffaello (Firenze: Nuova Salani, 1983), cat. no. 88, illus. 300.

Pietro Scarpellini, Perugino (Milan: Electa Editrice, 1984), 57, 127, illus. 303, fig. 323.

Filippo Todini, La Pittura umbra dal Duecento al primo Cinquecento, Vol. 1 (Milan: 1989), 267, 271.

Joseph Antenucci Becherer, et al, Pietro Perugino: Master of the Italian Renaissance (exhibition catalogue) (New York: published for the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI, by Rizzoli, 1997), cat. no. 21a, illus.

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 658, illus. (b-w) 659.
Exhibition HistoryBerlin, Rudolph Lepke's Kunst-Auctions-Haus (March 31, 1914), cat. no. 55.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "A Gift to North Carolina: Italian Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection," February 5-April 24, 1994, handout no. 11.

Grand Rapids, MI, The Grand Rapids Art Museum, "Pietro Perugino: Master of the Italian Renaissance," November 16, 1997-February 1, 1998, cat. no. 21a.

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