The Madonna of the Stars

Provenance

(Kurt Walter Bachstitz Gallery, The Hague), by 1921.[1] Ralph Harman [1873-1931] and Mary Batterman [d.1951] Booth, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, by 1923;[2] gift 1947 to NGA. [1] Published by Georg Gronau, _The Bachstitz Gallery Collection, vol. 3: Objects of Art and Paintings_, Berlin, 1921: pl. 92; and Detlev von Hadeln, _Zeichnungen des Giacomo Tintoretto_, Berlin, 1922: 95, repro. [2] C.B. Ely, "Two Works by Tintoretto in the Detroit Museum," _Art in America_ 12 (1923): 32-37.

The Madonna of the Stars

Tintoretto, Jacopo

c. 1575/1585

Accession Number

1947.6.6

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 92.7 x 72.7 cm (36 1/2 x 28 5/8 in.) | framed: 118.4 x 99 x 8.8 cm (46 5/8 x 39 x 3 7/16 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Ralph and Mary Booth Collection