On View
- Artist
- Defendente Ferrari
(active Italian, ca. 1500 - 1535) - Title
- Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist
- Date
- ca. 1525
- Medium
- Oil on wood panel
- Dimensions
- 91 x 60 in. Overall
- Credit
- Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
- Accession No.
- 61.4.7
- Classification
- Paintings
- Geography
- Italy
Related
Unknown date, acquired by Henry Pelham Archibald Douglas Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln, 7th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyme (1864-1928); 4 June 1937, sold following his death by Christie’s auction house (London, England) (lot. 29, attributed to Vicenzo Foppa); 4 June 1937, purchased from this sale by Giuseppe Bellesi (London, England). 16 September 1938, sold by Alessandro Contini- Bonacossi (Rome and Florence, Italy) to Samuel H. Kress (New York, NY); September 1961, gifted by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation (New York, NY) to the University of Wisconsin Madison; 1967, transferred to Elvehjem Art Center [now called Chazen Museum of Art]
- Baumann, Barry. "The Treatment of Defendente Ferrari's 'Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints and Angels.' " Bulletin/Annual Report 1987-1988. Elvehjem Museum of Art (1990): 4-11. pp. 4-11
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- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 3, No. 4, July/August 1987. p. 1
- Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Elvehjem Museum of Art Bulletin/Annual Report 1987-1988." Elvehjem Museum of Art, 1989 p. 4
- National Gallery of Art Library. “Image Collections.” NGA Library - Image Collections. National Gallery of Art Library. Accessed September 24, 2020. https://library.nga.gov/permalink/01NGA_INST/1p5jkvq/alma99413093804896
- William Suida. “Contributo alla conoscenza delle pitture piemontesi in America.” Bollettino della Società Piemontese di Archeologia e di Belle Arti, vol. VIII–XI (1954–1957): 82-93. p. 88, fig. 82
- Shapely, Fern Rusk. "Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XV-XVI Century." London: Phaidon Press, 1968. p. 24, fig. 56
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