Madonna of Humility

• Madonna of Humility
• Madonna dell'humiltà (former title)

SK-A-3997

Madonna dell'humiltà. Madonna van de nederigheid. Maria zittend op de grond geeft het Christuskind de borst.

inscription: ‘S. Maria De Umilitade’

• painter: attributed to Niccolò di Mariano, Pistoia (possibly)
• painter: falsification of anoniem, Florence [rejected attribution]
• painter: anoniem, Italy [rejected attribution]

c. 1490 - c. 1500

tempera (?), goud en zilver op paneel

• height 26 cm x width 16.5 cm
• depth 3.5 cm

Public domain

…; collection Prof. Dr Otto Lanz (1865-1935), Amsterdam, 1906;{File RMA; according to Lanz´s documentation shown at the exhibition of his collection in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam in 1906; Amsterdam 1906a, possibly p. 12, no 2, as Onbekende meester midden der 15d´ eeuw, Noord-Italië of Florence.} his widow, Anna Theresia Elisabeth Lanz - Willi (1870 - 1954), Amsterdam, 1935; from whom, CHF 2,000,000 and fl. 350,000, with xx other paintings, to Hans Posse (1879-1942), for Adolf Hitler´s Führermuseum, Linz, through the mediation of the dealer N. Katz, 1941;{Van Os 1978, p. 167.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945 (inv. no. NK 2325);{Provenance from 1935 to 1945 reconstructed by Ekkart et al. 2006.} on loan from the DRVK to the museum, 1952 (inv. no. SK-C-1423); transferred to the museum, 1960

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

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