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Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist

Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist

Gallery Location

Not currently on view

Defendente Ferrari

Artist/Maker
Defendente Ferrari
(active Italian, ca. 1500 - 1535)
Title
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints John the Baptist and John the Evangelist
Date
around 1525
Material & Process
Oil on wood panel
Dimensions
91 x 60 in. Overall
Credit
Gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation
Inventory No.
61.4.7
Classification
Paintings
Location
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]

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  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Handbook of the Collection." Elvehjem Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Madison, 1990. no. 25
  • Elvehjem Museum of Art. "Artscene." Vol. 2, No. 3, May/June 1986. p. 1
  • 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

  • Caring for the Collection: Restoration Progress Report: Elvehjem Art Center, 11/2/1972–1/3/1973

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