Madonna of Humility

Madonna van de nederigheid

SK-A-4002

Madonna dell' Umiltà. Maria zittend op een kussen op de grond, de rechterarm om het staande Christuskind geslagen, een boek in de linkerhand. In de lucht serafijnen. Boven in het paneel een tondo met de buste van Christus, in profiel naar rechts. Waarschijnlijk een paneel van een tweeluik.

inscription: ‘DEUS IN A[D]IUTORIUM DOMIN[E] AD A[D]IUVANDUM’

• F. Russoli, The Berenson collection, Milaan 1934, nr. XVIII
• E.T. Dewald, 'The master of the Ovile madonna', Art Studies (1929) nr. 7, p. 154.
• H. Kiel, 'Aus der Arbeit der Museen : Florenz Instituto Universitario Olandese', Pantheon (1969) nr. 27, p. 337-338.
• E.T. Dewald, 'The master of the Ovile madonna', Art Studies (1923) nr. 1, p. 45.
• Sherwood A. Fehm, 'Notes on the exhibition fo Sienese paintings form Dutch collections', Burlington Magazine (1969), p. 5711-7.

• painter: Bartolommeo Bulgarini, Siena
• painter: Meester van San Pietro in Ovile, Siena [rejected attribution]

c. 1353

tempera op paneel

height 57 cm x width 24.5 cm

Public domain

…; sale, Adolf von Beckerath (1834-1915, Berlin), Berlin (Rudolph Lepke), 23 May 1916 sqq., no. 295, as Bartolo di Fredi, to Prof. Dr Otto Lanz (1865-1935), Amsterdam;{Copy RMA.} 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 (inv. no. 3230);{Van Os 1978, p. 167; the Linz inv. no. 3230 is recorded on a label on the reverse of the panel.} war recuperation, SNK, 20 October 1945 (inv. no. NK 2334);{Provenance from 1934 to 1945 reconstructed by Ekkart et al. 2006; MCCP website, file card no. 4516; the Munich Central Collecting Point number 4516 is recorded in blue on the Linz inv. no. label on the reverse of the panel.} on loan from the DRVK to the museum, 1952 (inv. no. SK-C-1428); 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.

• F. Russoli, The Berenson collection, Milaan 1934, nr. XVIII
• E.T. Dewald, 'The master of the Ovile madonna', Art Studies (1929) nr. 7, p. 154.
• H. Kiel, 'Aus der Arbeit der Museen : Florenz Instituto Universitario Olandese', Pantheon (1969) nr. 27, p. 337-338.
• E.T. Dewald, 'The master of the Ovile madonna', Art Studies (1923) nr. 1, p. 45.
• Sherwood A. Fehm, 'Notes on the exhibition fo Sienese paintings form Dutch collections', Burlington Magazine (1969), p. 5711-7.

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