Votive panel or altarpiece, cut down: Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints Bartholomew the Apostle and John the Baptist

Artist Master of San Torpé Italian, active around Pisa, 1290–1320

Datecirca 1300–1310

MediumTempera and gold leaf on panel, transferred to canvas

Dimensions19 11/16 x 15 1/2 in. (50 x 39.4 cm)
Frame: 22 1/8 x 17 7/8 x 2 in. (56.2 x 45.4 x 5.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.3

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ProvenanceBritish collection, by 1868 (exh. Leeds, 1868); collection Duchessa Joséphine Melzi d'Eril-Barbo, Milan, by 1901; Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1934; on loan to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1941-59; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.Published ReferencesCapi d'Arte, Appartenenti a S. E. la Duchessa Joséphine Melzi-d'Eril-Barbo Descritti dal Dr. Giulio Carotti ( [?]: 1901), 51-52 (as Duccio).

F. M. Perkins, Rassegna d'Arte, Vol. 9 (1904), 145-6; Vol. 13 (1913), 39.

F. M. Perkins, "The Sienese Exhibition of Ancient Art," The Burlington Magazine 5 (1904), 581-82 (cites as no. 1703) -(also n.b. nos. 1960, 1698).

Raimond van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, Vol. 2 ([?]: 1924), 97.

Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1941), cat. no. 259.

D. C. Schorr, The Christ Child in Devotional Images ([?]: 1954), 10, 13 (as Ducciesque Pisan master).

The Samuel H. Kress Collection, North Carolina (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 22, illus. (b-w) 23 (as Sienese Master, ca. 1320-30).

R. Longhi, "Qualità del 'Maestro di San Torpè'," Paragone 153 (September 1962), 12-13, illus. pl. 15.

Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XIII - XV Century, Vol. 1 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1966), 19, illus. fig. 39 (K292).

Hanna Kiel, "Mostra del Restauro" (exhibition review), Pantheon 30 (1972), 508 (connected with the Madonna and Child, Campiglia Marittima, Propositura di San Lorenzo).

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The North Carolina University Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 175.

Nora W. Desloge, "Master of San Torpè, "The Witness of John the Baptist," in Italian Paintings and Sculpture. The Saint Louis Art Museum Bulletin 29, no. 1 (Winter 1988), 6-8, 60 (NCMA ptg. cited 60, no. 7).

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 157.

La Pittura in Italia. Il Duecento e il Trecento Vol. 2, 630 (incorrectly, as in Metropolitan Museum).

Enzo Carli, La Pittura a Pisa dalle Origini alla 'Bella Maniera," 54, illus. fig. 73.

Perri Lee Roberts, et al, Sacred Treasures: Early Italian Paintings from Southern Collections (exhibition catalogue) (Athens: Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, 2002), cat. no. 5, illus. (color) 47.

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 650, illus. (b-w) 651.
Exhibition HistoryLeeds, "Exhibition of Works of Art," 1868, no. 15.

Siena, "Mostra dell'Antica Arte Senese," April-August 1904, cat. no. 1703 (as manner of Duccio).

Washington, DC, National Gallery Of Art, Smithsonian Institution, "Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture," 1941, cat. no. 259.

Athens, GA, Georgia Museum of Art, "Sacred Treasures: Early Italian Paintings from Southern Collections," October 12, 2002-January 5, 2003; Birmingham, AL, Birmingham Museum of Art, January 26-April 13, 2002; Sarasota, FL, John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, May 31-August 10, 2003, cat. no. 5, illus. (color).

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