Madonna and Child

Provenance

Prince Nikolai Viktorovich Gagarin [1873-1925], Moscow, by 1892.[1] Prince Paul Trubetskoi, Paris, until c. 1921-1922.[2] (Van Diemen & Co., The Hague); sold August 1922 to Ralph Harman [1873-1931] and Mary Batterman [d. 1951] Booth, Grosse Point, Michigan; by descent 1949 to their daughter and her husband, William and Virginia Vogel, Milwaukee; their daughter, Grace Vogel Aldworth [d. 2002] Chicago, by 1977;[3] gift 1981 to NGA. [1] In this year the picture was included in a charity exhibition in Moscow of pictures from private collections, according to an undated letter (reply dated 7 February 1992) from Konstantin Akinsha, Moscow correspondent for _Art News_ magazine, in NGA curatorial files. [2] The Akinsha letter cited in note 1 states that the painting seems to have been imported to the U.S. from Paris in 1921-1922; however, it must have been back in Europe by 1922, when Ralph and Mary Booth purchased it from Van Deimen. [3] Information on the provenance was provided by Grace Vogel Aldworth and Mrs. William Vogel in their letter of 20 December 1983 (in NGA curatorial files).

Madonna and Child

Gossaert, Jan

c. 1532

Accession Number

1981.87.1

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

overall: 34.4 x 24.8 cm (13 9/16 x 9 3/4 in.) | framed: 51.4 x 41.9 cm (20 1/4 x 16 1/2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Gift of Grace Vogel Aldworth in memory of her grandparents Ralph and Mary Booth