The Madonna and Child with Saints in a Landscape (Sacra Conversazione)

Provenance

Jonathan Richardson, Senior (as by Giovanni Bellini) [1665-1745], London; Sir Anthony Westcombe, Bart. [d. 1752]; John Malcolm [1805-1893], Poltalloch; his son-in-law, The Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy [1845-1918], Newbury; Geoffrey Gathorne-Hardy; The Hon. Robert Gathorne Hardy; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 24 November 1976, no. 16); British Rail Pension Fund; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 2 July 1990, no. 7); NGA purchase (via David Tunick, Inc., New York) in 1990.

The Madonna and Child with Saints in a Landscape (Sacra Conversazione)

Carpaccio, Vittore

1500/1510

Accession Number

1990.43.1

Medium

pen and brown ink (iron gall) with brown wash over black chalk on laid paper (cut vertically at center and reattached, laid on nineteenth century mount)

Dimensions

overall: 13.9 × 23.7 cm (5 1/2 × 9 5/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Patrons' Permanent Fund