Center panel of an altarpiece: Virgin and Child

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Center panel of an altarpiece: Virgin and Child

Artist Segna di Bonaventura Italian, active Siena by 1298; d. 1326/1331

Datecirca 1320

MediumTempera on panel, with gold leaf

Dimensions35 3/8 x 22 1/4 in. (89.9 x 56.5 cm)
Frame: 43 1/8 x 28 5/8 in. (109.5 x 72.7 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.1

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ProvenanceTito Giuggioli, Siena; Philip Lehman, New York; Kress acquisition, 1943; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to NCMA, 1960.Published ReferencesF. Mason Perkins, "La Pittura alls Mostra d'Arte antica in Siena," Rassegna d'Arte 4 (1904), 145.

"The Sienese Exhibiton of Ancient Art," Burlington Magazine 5 (April-September 1904), 582.

J. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 3 (New York: Charles Scribner and Sons, 1908), 28 (note 1 by Langton Douglas).

Edward Hutton edition, A New History of Painting in Italy from the XII to the XVI Century, Vol. 2 (London: J. M. Dent & Co., 1909), cat. no. 45, illus. between 30-31.

Curt H. Weigelt, Duccio di Buoninsegna (Leipzig: 1911), 263.

Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of the British and Foreign Pictures, 81st ed. (London: National Gallery, 1913), 650.

Societa degli Amici dei Monumenti, In onore di Duccio di Buoninsegna e della sua scuola (Siena: 1913), no. 69, illus. fig.2 (view of gallery with our painting before restoration).

"Appunti sulla Mostra Ducciana a Siena" Rassegna d'Arte 13, no. 2 (1913), 35.

Osvald Sirén and Maurice W. Brockwell, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Italian Primitives (New York: F. Kleinberger Galleries, November 12-30, 1917), cat. no. 42, illus. 116.

"Sienese Paintings in American Collections," Part 1, Art in America 8, no. 5 (August 1920), 196, illus. 194.

Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, Vol. 2 (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1924), 138-139, note 4, illus. 137.

Robert Lehman, The Philip Lehman Collection, New York Paintings, Vol. 1, copy no. 9 (Paris: Braun & Co., 1928), cat. no. 18, illus.

Bernhard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Rennaissance (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1932), 523-524.

Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento (Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1936), 450.

Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1945), illus. 16.

Alfred M. Frankfurter, Supplement to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery (New York: The Art Foundation, 1946), 17, illus., detail 16.

José Pijoán, Summa Artis. Historia General del Arte, Vol. 8 (Madrid: 1950), 176, illus.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 9, 18, illus. (b-w) 19.

C.W.S. [Charles W. Stanford], "Picture of the Month," North Carolina Museum of Art Calendar of Art Events 4, no. 7 (March 1961), briefly discussed and illus. (b-w) unnumbered page.

"Raleigh ,North Carolina: La collezione Kress di opera della Rinascenza italiana al North Carolina Museum," Emporium 134, no. 802 (October 1961), 172.

Paul Wescher, "Die Kress-Schenkung für Raleigh," Pantheon 21, no. 1 (January-February 1963), 8-11, illus. 9, fig. 2.

"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 4, nos. 2 and 3 (Winter-Spring 1964), listed 55.

An Exhibition of Italian Panels & Manuscripts from the Thirteenth & Fourteenth Centuries in Honor of Richard Offner (exhibition catalogue) (Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1965), cat. no. 18.

North Carolina Bankers Association, The Tarheel Banker (December 1973), illus. cover.

Hayden B. J. Maginnis, "Una Madonna col Bambino di Niccolo di Segna a Cortona," Arte llustrada 7, no. 58 (July 1974), 214-218, illus. 217, fig. 6.

Denys Sutton, ed., "The Tribulations of an Editor, [Chapter 10]," Apollo 109, no. 207 (May 1979), 357 (93), illus. 355, no. 14 (91).

James H. Stubblebine, Duccio di Buoninsegna and His School, Vol 1. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979),137, illus. fig. 330.

Enzo Carli, La Pittura Senese del Trecento. [date, place, page]

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 156.

David Steel, entry for Madonna and Child, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 117, illus. (color).

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 672, illus. (b-w) 673.

David Steel, entry for Madonna and Child, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 250, illus. (color) 251.

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 HistorySiena, "Mostra dell' Antica Art Senese," April-August 1904, cat. no. 1698.

Siena, Siena Gallery, "Catalogo della Galleria di Belle Arti in Sienna," 1909, cat. no. 588.

Siena, "Mostra delle Pitture di Duccio de Buoninsegna e della sua Scuola," September 1-December 1, 1912, cat. no. 67.

New York, F. Kleinberger Galleries, "Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Italian Primitives," November 12-30, 1917, cat. no. 42, illus. 116.

Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, "Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection," 1945-1959, illus. 16.

Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum, "An Exhibition of Italian Panels and Manuscripts from the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries in Honor of Richard Offner," April 9-June 6, 1965, cat. no. 18.

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

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