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| Keywords: Albrecht Dürer - Madonna and Child (obverse) - Google Art Project.jpg Google Art Project Q3842403 Creator Albrecht Dürer circa 1496/1499 cm 66 2 55 5 Gallery 35 Samuel H Kress Collection Germany Nuremberg 1471 Germany Nuremberg 1528 Albrecht male 27434370 Dürer German 1471 - 1528 /collection/national-gallery-of-art-washington-dc/artwork/madonna-and-child-obverse-albrecht-durer/27421838/ 41598 du Cabinet de Monsieur Paul de Praun a Nuremberg</i> Nuremberg 1797 31 Joachim Patenier 239 Lot et ses deux Filles sortans de Sodome Les figures sont comme decoupées sans justes ombres Sur bois Albret Durer reçut ce petit Tableau en 1521 à Anvers par le Sécretaire de cette Ville haut 8 p larg 8 p The Dimensions in <i>pouces</i> approximately 8x8 inches do not correspond to those of the Gallery's panel and a verso is not described suggesting that a different painting had been assigned the same catalogue number The Praun collection was dispersed in sales of 1797 and 1802; see Th Hampe Kunstfreunde im alten Nürnberg und ihre Sammlungen <i>Festschrift des Vereins für Geschichte der Stadt Nürnberg zur Feier seines 25 jähr Bestehens</i> Nuremberg 1903 82-87 Colin Eisler <i>Paintings from the Samuel H Kress Collection European Schools Excluding Italian</i> Oxford 1977 14 listed Willibald Imhoff the Elder d 1580 of Nuremberg as a possible owner Although there are several images of the Madonna or of the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah listed in the Imhoff inverntories they are not however conjoined or described in enough detail to permit identification with the Gallery's picture By the same token it is not possible to verify the interesting suggestion in Eisler 1977 16 n 46 that the Gallery's panel might be the Marienbild von Albrecht Dürer belonging to both the Imhoff and Praun collections See Joseph Heller <i>Das Leben und die Werke Albrecht Dürer's</i> Bamberg 1827 vol 2 part 1 78 no 1 Imhoff 230-231 no y Praun There is also some question as to whether the many works listed as by Dürer in the Imhoff collection were autograph or deliberate falsification; see Moriz Thausing <i>Dürer Geschichte seines Lebens und seiner Kunst</i> Leipzig 1876 141-144 Engl trans <i>Albert Dürer His Life and Works</i> Fred A Eaton Ed 2 vols London 1882 1 184-188 </ref> Charles à Court Repington d 1925 Amington Hall Warwickshire; sold to Mrs Phyllis Loder London <ref>This and the preceding are unverified but are first cited in Max J Friedländer Eine Unbekannte Dürer-Madonna <i>Pantheon</i> 14 1934 322 who states that Loder purchased the painting from à Court Repington repeated in Rudolf Heinemann <i>Stiftung Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz I Teil Verzeichnis der Gemälde</i> Lugano-Castagnola 1937 47 no 127 and accepted by later authors For Charles à Court Repington see the article by J E Edmonds <i>The Dictionary of National Biography</i> Oxford and London Supplement 1922-1930 717-718 That he dealt in pictures on occasion is stated in Mary Repington <i>Thanks for the Memory</i> London 1938 223 278 No information has come to light concerning Phyllis Loder There is no justification for the assertation in Denys Sutton Robert Langton Douglas Part IV <i>Apollo</i> CX no 209 July 1979 205 that the picture was once owned by Robert Langton Douglas </ref> sale Christie's London 29 April 1932 no 51 as Bellini ; Vaz Dias <ref>Art prices Current</i> 11 part A A154 no 2445; see also the hand-written annotation in the copy of the sales catalogue in the Frick Art Reference Library New York as cited by Eisler 1977 14 A note in the NGA provenance card file suggests that the panel passed from Vaz Dias to the dealer Bottenwieser in Berlin but it has not been possible to verify this </ref> Baron Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza 1875-1947 Villa Favorita Lugano-Castagnola by 1934 Pinakos Inc Rudolf Heinemann on consignment to M Knoedler Co New York 1950 ;<ref>M Knoedler Co stockbook </ref> purchased 1950 by the Samuel H Kress Foundation New York; gift 1952 by exchange to NGA <br/><small> reflist </small> German religious Madonna and Child special url_id PQGtmOgny4UQTA PD-old-100 1528 DEFAULTSORT Durer; Madonna and Child Madonna Haller 00; National Gallery of Art Madonnas by Albrecht Dürer German paintings in the National Gallery of Art Google Art Project works by Albrecht Dürer 1490s paintings 15th-century religious paintings in the United States 15th-century oil on panel paintings in the United States 15th-century paintings of Madonna and Child from Germany Paintings of Madonna and Child in the United States Sammlung Schloss Rohoncz | ||||
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