Provenance
(Stefano Bardini [1836-1922], Florence), by 1890.[1] (Leo Nardus [1868-1955], Suresnes, France, and New York), by 1910.[2] Marczell von Nemes [1866-1930], Munich and Budapest.[3] Private collection, Rome, by 1930.[4] (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossa, Rome); sold November 1932 to the Samuel H. Kress Collection, New York;[5] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] Fiorenza Scalia and Cristina de Benedictis, _Il Museo Bardini a Firenze_, Milan, 1984: 125, pls. LXXIII, LXXIV, XCI.
[2] Salomon Reinach, _Répertoire de peintures du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance (1280-1580)_, 6 vols., Paris, 1905-1923: 3(1910):462.
[3] Record of ownership noted in Kress collection records, in NGA curatorial files; see note 5.
[4] Adolfo Venturi, "Eine Madonna von Francesco del Cossa," _Pantheon_ 5 (June 1930): 249-250.
[5] The bill for two paintings, one of them "_Madonna, Child and Angels_ by Francesco del Cossa...From the collection of Baron von Nemes, Munich," is dated 1 November 1932 (copy in NGA curatorial records). See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1359.
Accession Number
1939.1.115
Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Dimensions
overall: 53.5 x 36.2 cm (21 1/16 x 14 1/4 in.) | framed: 68.6 x 51.4 x 7 cm (27 x 20 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
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