Valve of a diptych: Virgin and Child with Saint John the Evangelist, Saint Anthony Abbot, and Donor

Artist Unknown Lombard painter Italian, active in the Duchy of Milan (present day Lombardy), circa 1400

Datecirca 1400; altered circa 1472–1475

MediumOil, tempera, and gold on panel; paper and ink

Dimensions13 3/8 x 9 1/2 in. (34 x 24.1 cm)
Frame: 15 3/8 x 11 5/8 in. (39.1 x 29.5 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.21

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ProvenanceJulius Böhler, Munich, by 1909; Count Trotti Collection, Paris; Samuel H. Kress Collection, New York, 1928; on loan to the National Gallery of Art, 1941-1960; Kress Foundation gift to NCMA, 1961.Published ReferencesG. Magenta, La Certosa di Pavia, Vol. 2 (Milan: 1897), 196, no .234, 197--(discusses Matteo Marcagatti de Attendoli and Castello di Pavia).

W. Suida, "Studien zur lombardischen Malerei des XV. Jahrhunderts," Monatshefte für Kunstwissenschaft 2 (1909), discussed 495, illus. 494, fig. 19 (as Milanese painter, 1452).

Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1941), cat. no. 30.

Arte Lombarda dai Visconti agli Sforza (exhibition catalogue) (Milan: Palazzo Reale, 1958), cat. no. 196 (as Lombard, early 15th century).

The International Style: The Arts in Europe around 1400 (exhibition catalogue)(Baltimore: Walters Art Gallery, 1962), cat. no. 15, illus. pl. 21 (as Lombard, early 15th century).

P. Toesca, La pittura e la minitatura nella Lombardia dai piu antichi monumenti alla meta` del Quattrocento (Milan: 1912), 556, illus. fig. 459; (1966 ed.), 228-9.

F. R. Shapley, "A Portrait of Francesco Sforza," Art Quarterly 8 (1945), 34, 37.

Erwin Panofsky, Early Netherlandish Painting, Vol. 1 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958), 392, no. 1 (as Franco-Flemish).

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 52, illus. (b-w) 53 (as Lombard, 15th century).

N. Raponi, "Barbavara, Francesco," in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, Vol. 6 (Rome: 1964), 140-1.

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

Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1970), 14, illus. (b-w) 15.

R. Longhi, Lavori in Valpadana dal Trecento al primo Cinquecento, 1934 - 1964, Opera complete, Vol. 4 (Florence: 1973), 91-153. Original "Il tramonto della pittura medioevale nell' Italia del nord" (1935-36), 138-9?

A. Cadei, Belbello miniatore lombardo, Artisti del libro alla corte dei Visconti (Rome: 1976).

Marcel Thomas, The Golden Age: Manuscript Painting at the Time of Jean, Duke of Berry (New York: Braziller, 1979), 28-9, 50, illus. 32, fig. 19.

Maria Grazia Albertini Ottolenghi, "Pavia alla metà del Quattrocento. Nuovi documenti sull' architettura e sulla pittura," Studi di storia delle arti 4 (Università di Genova, Istituto di storia dell' arte, 1981-82), 32 ,33, 37-8, illus. 291, fig.19.

F. Todini, "Dipinti su tavola del primo Quattrocento in Lombardia," in Il polittico degli Zavattari in Castel Sant 'Angelo, Contributi per la pittura tardogotica lombarda (exhibition catalogue) (Florence: 1984), 54-56 (suggests patron was Francesco Barbavara, attributes painting to Salomone de' Grassi).

Maria Grazia Albertini Ottolenghi, "Problemi della pittura a Pavia nella prima metà del Quattrocento," Arte cristiana 75, no. 718 (1987), 12 (first to suggest coat of arms could be Barbavara).

Mina Gregori, Pittura a Pavia dal Romanico al Settecento (Milan: Cassa di Risparmio delle Provincie Lombarde, 1988), 59, illus. (color) 40, fig. 12.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (color) 165.

A. de Marchi, Gentile da Fabriano. Un viaggio nella pittura italiana alla fine del gotico (Milan: Federico Motta Editore, 1992), 23, 26, illus. 27, 29, 30, 43.

Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for Madonna and Child with St. John the Evangelist, a Donor, and St. Anthony Abbot, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 123, illus. (color).

Fabio Marcelli, Gentile da Fabriano (Milan: Silvana Editoriale Spa, 2005), no. 12, illus. (color) 30.

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 656, illus. (b-w) 657.

Rebecca Martin Nagy, entry for Madonna and Child with St. John the Evangelist, a Donor, and St. Anthony Abbot, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 258, illus. (color) 259.
Exhibition HistoryWashington, DC, National Gallery of Art, "Preliminary Catalogue of Painting and Sculpture," 1941, cat. no. 30.

Milan, Palazzo Reale, "Arte Lombarda dai Visconti agli Sforza," April-June, 1958, cat. no. 196 (as Lombard, early 15th century).

Baltimore, MD, Walters Art Gallery, "The International Style: The Arts in Europe around 1400," October 22-December 31, 1962, cat. no. 15, illus. pl. 21 (as Lombard, early 15th century).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection, October 1970, 14, illus. (b-w) 15.

Fabriano, Italy, Spedale di Santa Maria del Buon Gesú, "Gentile da Fabriano e l'altro Rinascimento," April 20-July 23, 2006.

Milan, Palazzo Reale, “Arte Lombarda dai Visconti agli Sforza,” March 12–June 28, 2015.

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

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