Madonna Adoring the Child

Provenance

Contessa di Breganze, Venice.[1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Florence and Rome); sold 1934 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York[2]; gift 1939 to NGA. [1] According to Kress files in NGA curatorial records. [2] See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1320.

Madonna Adoring the Child

Basaiti, Marco

c. 1520

Accession Number

1939.1.144

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

overall: 20.6 x 16.5 cm (8 1/8 x 6 1/2 in.) | framed: 32.1 x 27.9 x 4.1 cm (12 5/8 x 11 x 1 5/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection