Christ Appearing to the Virgin

Provenance

Don José de Madrazo y Agudo, Madrid [d.1859], by 1856;[1] by inheritance to his son, Don Federigo de Madrazo y Kuntz [d. 1894], Madrid.[2] Marqués de Salamanca [1805-1866], Madrid;[3] (his sale, Paris, 3-6 June 1867, no. 155, as by Hugo van der Goes).[4] Don Pedro de Madrazo, Madrid, until 1909; (Durlacher, London), by 1909.[5] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York), September 1912. (Kleinberger, New York), May-June, 1914;[6] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York), June 1914; purchased 15 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[7] gift 1937 to NGA. [1] _Catalogo de la Galeria de Cuadros Del Excmo. Sr. D. José de Madrazo_ (Madrid, 1856), 519. [2] Unverified, but very likely; information from Duveen Brothers brochure in NGA curatorial files. [3] _Catalogo de la galeria de Cuadros de la posesion de Vista-Alegre, de propriedad del Excmo. Sr. Marqués de Salamanca_ (Madrid, 1865), no. 619 (copy in NGA curatorial files). [4] The Getty Provenance Index names a Guadré as the buyer at the 1867 sale, and records that the sale was held at Pillet, Paris. It lists its source as "procés verbal (Arch. Paris D48E358)". [5] Duveen Brothers brochure in NGA curatorial files. W.H. James Weale, "_The Risen Saviour Appearing to His Mother_: a masterpiece by Roger de la Pasture," _Burlington Magazine_ 16 (December 1909), 159, cites the painting as being with Durlacher and mentions the previous owner as Pedro de Madrazo. [6] Kleinberger archives, card no. 9561, department of European painting, Metropolitan Museum. John O. Hand (as per n. 3 above), 256, n. 5, acknowledges Lorne Campbell for bringing this information to his attention, and Mary Sprinson de Jesús for access to the files. [7] The original Duveen Brothers invoice is in Gallery Archives, copy in NGA curatorial files.

Christ Appearing to the Virgin

Anonymous Artist

c. 1475

Accession Number

1937.1.45

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

overall: 163 × 93 cm (64 3/16 × 36 5/8 in.) | framed: 182.88 × 115.57 × 11.43 cm (72 × 45 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Andrew W. Mellon Collection