Virgin and Child with Two Angels

Artist Francesco Francia Italian, circa 1450–1517/1518

Datecirca 1495–1500

MediumOil on panel

Dimensions34 3/4 x 22 1/4 in. (88.3 x 56.5 cm)
Frame: 38 x 25 3/8 in. (96.5 x 64.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.39

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ProvenanceDel Bono chapel, San Giovanni Evangelista, Parma (?); Prince Parma Bourbon, Schloss Frohsdorf, Austria; art market, Vienna, 1921; Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1875-1947), Schloss Rohoncz, Rechnitz, Hungary by 1930; transferred to Villa Favorita, Castagnola, Switzerland, by 1932; by bequest 1947 to his son Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza (1921-2002), Villa Favorita, Castagnola, by exchange, 1954, to: with M. Knoedler & Co., London, Paris, and New York, (stock no. A 5905); sold to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York 1957; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.

Published ReferencesI. Affò, Il Parmigiano servitore di piazza.... (Parma, 1796), 119.

Paolo Donato, Nuova descrizione della città di Parma (Parma, 1824), 39.

Guiseppe Bertoluzzi, Nuovissima Guida per osservare le pitture...esistenti attualmente nelle chiese di Parma (Parma, 1830), 133.

Adolfo Venturi, Storia dell'Arte Italiana, Vol. 7, pt. 3 (Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1914), 958-59, illus. fig. 712 (as school of Francia in the collection of Sterbini in Rome).

A. Venturi, L'Arte 24 (1921), 185.

A. Venturi, Studi dal vero (Milan, Hoepli, 192), 184-86, illus. fig. 111.

Copertini, "Note critiche agli 'Studi dal Vero' di A. Venturi," (Parma, 1928), no. 15.

Tancred Borenius, "Von der Italienischen Austellung in London," Pantheon 5 (March 1930), 143, illus. 144.

Exhibition of Italian Art, Lord Balniel and Kenneth Clark, eds. (exhibition catalogue) (London: Royal Academy of Art, 1930), cat. no. 202, illus; (1931 ed.), cat. no 253.

Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz (exhibition catalogue) (Munich: Neue Pinakothek, 1930), cat. no. 114, illus. pl. 89.

A. L. Mayer, "Die Ausstellung der Sammlung 'Schloss Rohoncz' in der Neuen Pinakothek, München," Pantheon [vol no.] (July 1930), p. 314.

Bernhard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1932), 207.

Bernhard Berenson, Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento (Milano: Ulrich Hoepli, 1936), 179.

Rudolf Heinemann, Stiftung Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz, der Gëmalde (Lugano, Castagnola -- Villa Favorita, 1937), Vol. 1, 54; vol 2, illus. pl. 142.

H. G. Alexander, "The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection at Lugano," The Connoisseur 23, no. 511 (March 1949), 29.

S. Freedberg, Parmigianino (1950), no. 22.

Arthur Popham, Correggio's Drawings (1957), 52-53.

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 80, illus. (b-w) 81.

Parma per l'arte 9, no. 1 (January-April 1961), 19-20.

Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1962), cat. no. 27.

Fern R. Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XV-XVI Century, Vol. 2 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1968), 71, illus. fig. 170.

Fern R. Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XV-XVI Century, Vol. 3 (London: The Phaidon Press, 1973), 390.

Bruno Adorni [?], ed., L'abbazia benedettina di S. Giovanni Evangelista a Parma (Milan: 1977).

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 185.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 170.

David Steel, "A Bolognese Legacy: Emilian Paintings in the Collection," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 1991-92), 3-4, illus. (b-w) 2.

Property from the Estate of Lillian Rojtman Berkman (auction catalogue) (Sotheby's, New York, January 28, 2005), mentioned 34.

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 622, illus. (b-w) 623.

Rachelle Garbarine, “Pictures of Faith,” NCCatholics (December 2015), large detail illus. (color) cover.

Old Master Paintings and Modern Art / Pinturas de Maestros Antiguous y Arte Moderno (Paris: Citadel 51, 2017), illus. (color) 58 (in English text section) and 224 (Spanish text section).

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), 39.

Joseph Bathanti, "Madonna and Child with Two Angels" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 152.Exhibition HistoryLondon, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, "Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900," January-March, 1930, cat. no. 202, (illustrated in Souvenir of the exhibition, 52, fig. 87); (1931), cat. no. 253.

Munich, Neue Pinakothek, "Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz," July - October 1930, cat. no. 114, illus. pl. 89.

Munich, Alte Pinakothek, 1931 (temporary loan).

Washington, DC, The National Gallery of Art, "Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection," December 10, 1961-February 4, 1962, cat. no. 27.

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

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