The Coronation of the Virgin with Six Angels

Provenance

The Hon. William Keith Rous [1907-1983], Worstead House, Norfolk; (sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 29 June 1934, no. 58, as by Orcagna); purchased by (Giuseppe Bellesi, London)[1] for (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence); sold October 1935 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA. [1] Bellesi worked in London as Contini Bonacossi’s agent in the 1930s. [2] The bill of sale for several paintings, including the Gaddi, is dated 10 October 1935 (copy in NGA curatorial files). The name of the British owner is incorrectly given as the Hon. Keith Bons. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2109.

The Coronation of the Virgin with Six Angels

Gaddi, Agnolo

c. 1390

Accession Number

1939.1.203

Medium

tempera on panel

Dimensions

painted surface: 161 × 79 cm (63 3/8 × 31 1/8 in.) | overall: 163.2 × 79.2 × 0.7 cm (64 1/4 × 31 3/16 × 1/4 in.) | framed: 172.1 x 87.3 x 7.9 cm (67 3/4 x 34 3/8 x 3 1/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection