The Expectant Madonna with Saint Joseph

Provenance

Private collection, Lyon, France.[1] (Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence); purchased July 1950 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1952 to NGA. [1] This is unverified, but cited in William Suida, _Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, 1945-1951_, Washington, D.C., 1951: 174. [2] Correspondence from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, in NGA curatorial files. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2166.

The Expectant Madonna with Saint Joseph

French 15th Century

c. 1425/1450

Accession Number

1952.5.32

Medium

tempera on European walnut

Dimensions

image: 70.5 × 35 cm (27 3/4 × 13 3/4 in.) | with integral frame: 83.5 × 47.63 × 7.62 cm (32 7/8 × 18 3/4 × 3 in.) | framed (shadow box): 93.98 × 58.42 × 10.16 cm (37 × 23 × 4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection