Virgin and Child

Artist Paolo Uccello (Paolo di Dono) Italian, b. 1397, Florence; d. 1475, Florence

Datecirca 1430

MediumTempera and gold leaf on panel

Dimensions22 1/4 x 15 5/8 in. (56.5 x 39.7 cm)
Frame: 25 1/2 x 18 3/4 x 2 3/4 in. (64.8 x 47.6 x 7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.24

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Provenance[Borsi says antiques dealer, then Achillito Chiesa collection, Milan] Briganti Collection, Rome; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1937; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.Published ReferencesCarlo L. Ragghianti, "Intorno a Filippo Lippi," Critica d'arte, 3 (1938), XXIV (as Uccello).

Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1941), no. 409 (as Uccello).

William Emil Suida, Pantheon 26 (1940), 273 (as ascribed with good reason to Uccello).

John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, The Complete Work of Paolo Uccello (London: The Phaidon Press, 1950), 164 (as attributed to the Karlsruhe Master); 1969 ed., 168-69.

Mostra di Quattro Maestri del Primo Rinascimento (exhibition catalogue) (Firenze: Palazzo Strozzi, 1954), cat. no. 24, illus. pl. xxxiii.

E. Sindona, Paolo Uccello ([?]: 1957), 63; French ed. (Paris: 1962), 69 (as attributed to Uccello).

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960, 1965), 58, illus. (b-w) 59 (as Circle of Uccello).

L. Berti, "Una nuova Madonna e degli appunti su un grande maestro," Pantheon 19 (1961), 300, 303, 306 (as Uccello).

Enzo Carli, All the Paintings of Paolo Uccello (New York: 1963), 68 (under "Paintings attributed to Uccello" (endorses Pope-Hennessey's attribution to the Karlsruhe Master).

Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XII - XIV Century, Vol. 1 (London: 1966), 101, illus. fig. 273 (as attributed to Uccello).

Alessandro Parronchi, Paolo Uccello (Bologna: 1974), 60 (as early work of Alesso Baldovinetti).

Anna Padoa Rizzo, Paolo Uccello. Catalogo completo dei dipinti (Florence: 1991), 137, no. 31 (as workshop, c. 1470-75, possibly by Paolo's son Donato).

Franco et Stefano Borsi, Paolo Uccello, 345-46 (as anonymous follower of Uccello ca. 1440-50).

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 674, illus. (b-w) 675.

Mauro Minardi, Paolo Ucello (Milan: Ore Cultura, 2017), 160, illus. (color) 161, fig. 134.

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), 40.Exhibition HistoryWashington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 1940-52, "Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture," 1941, cat. no. 409 [check p. 201].

Firenze, Palazzo Strozzi, "Mostra di Quattro Maestri del Primo Rinascimento," April 22-July 12, 1954, cat. no. 24, illus. pl. xxxiii.

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. 7.

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

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