Virgin and Child in a Landscape
Artist
Cima da Conegliano
(Italian, b. Conegliano 1459/1460–d. 1517/1518 Conegliano of Venice)
Datecirca 1496
MediumOil on panel (later transferred to canvas and remounted to panel)
Dimensions28 x 24 3/4 in. (71.1 x 62.9 cm)
Frame: 38 3/4 x 34 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (98.4 x 87.6 x 8.9 cm)
Frame: 38 3/4 x 34 1/2 x 3 1/2 in. (98.4 x 87.6 x 8.9 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the State of North Carolina, 1952, and dedicated in honor of Dr. David H. Steel, curator of European art (1982–2019) by the NCMA Board of Trustees, 2020.
Object number52.9.152
On View
On viewCollections
ProvenancePrivate Collection, St. Petersburg, Russia; Leningrad Museums and Castles sale, Berlin, Rudolf Lepke, November 6–7, 1928, lot 364, illus. 15, sold for RM 55,000) [1]; Newhouse Galleries, New York; sold to NCMA, 1951.
[1] There are no annotated sale catalogues listed in Scipio. There are numerous versions of this composition with variations, including one in the National Gallery, London, and the Hermitage. The NCMA painting does not seem to have been previously published. It is not that exhibited by the Kotchoubey Collection, Russia, nor that formerly in the Schuster Collection.
Master of San Torpé
circa 1300–1310
Giovanni Antonio da Pordenone
circa 1515–1517
Benvenuto di Giovanni
circa 1476–1478
Unknown Lombard painter
circa 1400; altered circa 1472–1475
