Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist

Artist Andrea del Sarto b. 1486, Florence; d. 1530, Florence

Datecirca 1522

MediumOil on panel

Dimensions23 x 24 1/2 in. (58.4 x 62.2 cm)
Frame: 40 1/2 x 41 1/2 in. (102.9 x 105.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina

Object number52.9.167

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ProvenanceProbably Duke of Lerma, Valladolid, by 1603 (see Schroth); Volpi Collection, Florence; Eduard Simon Collection, Berlin (before 1914, when exh. At Kaiser Friedrich Museum, no. 154, illus. - acquired via Bode?); Simon Sale, Cassirer und Helbing, Berlin, October 10, 1929, no. 8 [sold 44,000DM??]; Berlin, Alfred and Gertrud Sommerguth collection-works from this collection (but apparently not the del Sarto) were sold at Hans W. Lange Auktionshaus, Berlin, February 9,1939; seen by Max J. Friedlaender in Amsterdam, April 19, 1946 (as "from the Collection of Ed. Simon"), at which time it is still apparently in the Sommerguth collection (Friedlaender's expertise is signed on Sommerguth stationery); Van Diemen-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York; sold to NCMA, April 8, 1952.Published ReferencesBernhard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (1905), 17.

Bernhard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1932), as del Sarto.

Betty Chamberlain, "North Carolina: First state-initiated collection: How to get and spend a million dollars for art," Art News 55, no. 2 (April 1956), illus. 37.

W. R. Valentiner, Catalogue of Paintings: Including Three Sets of Tapestries (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1956), no. 198, illus. (b-w).

Life (December 10, 1956), illus.

Bacchiacca and His Friends (exhibition catalogue) (Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1961), cat. no. 33.

S. J. Freedberg, Andrea del Sarto: Catalogue Raisonné, 2 Vols. (Cambridge: The Belknap Press ofHarvard University Press, 1963), Vol. 2, vii, 111, illus. fig. 9 (as "a work of the Sarto revival, and with great likelihood by Santi di Tito," derived from the Madonna della Scala).

John Shearman, Andrea del Sarto (Oxford, 1965) - xerox.

Raffaele Monti, Andrea del Sarto (Milano: Edizioni di Comunità, 1981), 119, illus. fig. 353 (as by an anonymous "maestro sartesco n.2.").

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) 188.

James A. Welu, "The Worcester Andrea del Sarto: The Ups and Downs of St. John," Worcester Art Museum Journal 7 (1983-84), 14 (note 2).

Sarah Schroth, The Private Picture Collection of the Duke of Lerma (Ph.D. dissertation,New York University, 1990), 30, 118.

Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 174.

Antonio Natali and Alessandro Cecchi, Andrea Del Sarto (Cantini [1995?]), illus. 91, fig. 41.

John Coffey, "Del Sarto Madonna Exonerated," in Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (Spring 2008), discussed and illus. (color) 14.

David Steel, entry for Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 268, illus. (color) 269.

Johannes Nathan, “Glanz, Verfemung und Exil: als die Werke Liebermanns in die Schweiz wanderten,” in Max Liebermann und die Schweiz (exhibition catalogue) (Munich: Hirmer Verlag for Museum Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur, 2014), illus. (color) 70, fig. 7 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).

Julian Brooks and Denise Allen, eds., Andrea del Sarto: The Renaissance Workshop in Action (exhibition catalogue) (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2015), discussed 167, illus. (color) 166, fig. 24 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
Exhibition HistoryBerlin, Kaiser Friedrich Museum, 1902 (1914?), cat. no. 154, illustrated.

Baltimore, MD, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Bacchiacca and His Friends," January 10-February 19, 1961, cat. no. 33, p. 48.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Miracle on Morgan Street: The Foundations of the NCMA, 1946–1960,” September 16, 2020–April 11, 2021.

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

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