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The Adoration of the Christ Child

Artist Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) b. circa 1488/1490 (?), Pieve di Cadore; d. 1576, Venice

Datecirca 1506

MediumOil on panel, transferred to Masonite

Dimensions7 1/2 x 6 3/8 in. (19.1 x 16.2 cm)
Frame: 14 3/4 x 13 1/8 x 4 1/4 in. (37.5 x 33.3 x 10.8 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.41

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceWith Frederick Mont Gallery, New York, 1952; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1952; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.

Published ReferencesHarold E. Wethey, The Paintings of Titian, Vol. 1 (London: The Phaidon Press (n.d.), 117-18 (as school of Giorgione).

Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932), 571.

Arthur Mayger Hind, Early Italian Engravings (London: published for M. Knoedler & Co., New York, by B. Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948), Vol. 5, 246f; (Vol. 7, illus. pl. 830, related engraving).

Hans Tietze and Erika Tietze-Conrat, "Guilio Campagnola's Engravings," Print Collector's Quarterly 29 (April 1942), 201.
Wilhelm Emil Suida, Art Veneta 8 (1954) (as young Titian).

Giorgione e I Giorgioeschi, (exhibition catalogue) (Venice, Italy: Palazzo Ducale, 1955), cat. no. 75, illus. 167.

Morassi, Antonio, "Un disegno e un dipinto sconosciuti di Giorgione," Emporium 121, no. 724 (April 1955), 149ff, illus. figs: 7, 12, 18 (attributed to Giorgione).

Guido Perocco, "La mostra di Giorgione e I giorgioneschi al Palazzo Ducale di Venezia," Emporium 122, no. 727 (July 1955), 18 (as attributed to Titian & Giorgione).

Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Vol. 1, Venetian School (London: The Phaidon Press, 1957), 86 (as Giorgionesque).

The Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 84, illus. (b-w) 85.

Art Treasures for America from the Samuel H. Kress Collection (exhibition catalogue) (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1961), cat. no. 94 (as Titian).

Guy Emerson, "The Kress Collection: A Gift to the Nation," National Geographic 120, no. 6 (December 1961), illus. (color) 830.

Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Vol. 2, Italian Schools XV - XVI Century (London: The Phaidon Press, 1968), 185, 186, illus. fig. 422, (K1874).

Margaret Stuffman, "Les Tableaux de la Collection de Pierre Crozat," National Geographic 120, no. 6 (December 1961), illus. (color) 830.

Sydney Jacob Freedberg, Painting in Italy, 1500 to 1600 (London: Pelican History of Art, 1971), 477, note 31; 478, note 40.

Terisio Pignatti, Giorgione (London: The Phaidon Press, 1971), 134, 135, illus. fig. 151.

"The Adoration of the Child," We the People of North Carolina (1972), 16.

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) 186.

Hilliard T. Goldfarb, "An Early Masterpiece by Titian Rediscovered, and Its Stylistic Implications," Burlington Magazine 126, no. 976 (July 1984), 419-20, 423, 424, illus. fig. 46.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 171.

"Cima's Madonna and Child in a Landscape," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Winter 1993), mentioned and illus. (b-w) 13.

S. J. Freedburg, "The Attribution of the Allendale Nativity," in Titian 500. Studies in the History of Art 45 (1993), 50-71, cited 56-58, fig. 9.

K. Garas, Giorgione in America (1995).

Paul Joannides, Titian to 1518 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), discussed 73-74, mentioned 39, 161, illus. (color) 72.

Giorgione: Myth and Enigma (exhibition catalogue), Sylvia Ferino-Pagden and Giovanna Nepi Scirè, eds. (Milan: Published by Skira Editore for the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, 2004), mentioned 244 (catalogue only, not in show).

Irina Artemieva, “New Light on Titian’s ‘Flight into Egypt’ in the Hermitage,” The Burlington Magazine 154 (January 2012), discussed 9.

Angelica Daneo, ed. Glory of Venice: Masterworks of the Renaissance (exhibition catalogue) (Denver: Denver Art Museum, 2016), cat. no. 48, illus. (color).

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), 23, 45.Exhibition HistoryVenice, Italy, Palazzo Ducale, "Giorgione e I Giorgioeschi," June 11-October 23, 1955, cat. no. 75, illus. 167.

Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, "Art Treasures for America: From the Samuel H. Kress Collection," December 10, 1961-February 4, 1962, cat. no. 94 (as Titian).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Exhibition Number One from the Permanent Collection," October 1970, 30, illus. (color) 31.

Denver, CO, Denver Art Museum, “Glory of Venice: Masterworks of the Renaissance,” October 2, 2016–February 12, 2017; Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, March 4–June 18, 2017, cat. no. 48, illus. (color).

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Venice and the Ottoman Empire," September 28, 2024-January 5, 2025. Object Rights Statement

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