Kedleston Madonna
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The Kedleston Madonna is a c.1529 oil on canvas painting by Parmigianino, now in the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, which acquired it from the Kedleston collection in the United Kingdom in 1995.[1]
History
Stylistic and compositional features of the work date it to the artist's period in Bologna between 1527 and 1530 - the Christ Child's pose is reminiscent of that in his 1530 Santa Margherita Madonna, for example. This agrees with Vasari's Lives of the Artists, which states that in this period Parmigianino ""scattered around Bologna other Madonnas and small coloured and ornate paintings".[2]
It was acquired from Marchese Arnaldi in Florence by William Kent for Nathaniel Curzon, 5th Baronet in 1758 and hung at the Curzon residence of Kedleston Hall, after which it is named. It passed through the Curzon family until being transferred to the trustees of the Kedleston Estate Trusts in 1987, who in turn sold it to its present owners in 1995. It was first attributed to Parmigianino in 1992 by Cecil Gould, an attribution accepted by all subsequent art historians.[3]
References
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- Baptism of Christ (c. 1519)
- Bardi Altarpiece (c. 1521)
- Adoration of the Shepherds (c. 1521–1522)
- Nativity (c. 1521–1522)
- The Circumcision (c. 1523)
- Saint Barbara (c. 1523)
- Female Martyr with Two Angels (c. 1523–1524)
- Portrait of Galeazzo Sanvitale (1524)
- Portrait of Lorenzo Cybo (1524)
- Sanvitale Madonna and Child (1524; fragment)
- Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (Parma; c. 1524)
- Portrait of a Collector (c. 1524)
- Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror (c. 1524)
- Holy Family with Angels (c. 1524)
- Doria Madonna (c. 1525)
- Nativity with Angels (c. 1525)
- Vision of Saint Jerome (1526–1527)
- The Conversion of St Paul (1527)
- Virgin and Child (c. 1527–1528)
- Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist (c. 1528)
- Saint Roch (c. 1528)
- Adoration of the Magi (c. 1529)
- Man Holding a Book (c. 1529)
- Kedleston Madonna (c. 1529)
- Santa Margherita Madonna (1529–1530)
- Madonna of the Rose (1530)
- Boy with a Finger in His Mouth (c. 1530)
- Madonna and Child with Saint Zechariah (c. 1530–1533)
- Turkish Slave (1533)
- Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (London; c. 1529)
- Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine (Louvre; c. 1529)
- Portrait of a Man (c. 1530)
- Portrait of Cecilia Gozzadini (c. 1530)
- Antea (c. 1535)
- Cupid Making His Bow (c. 1533–1535)
- Portrait of Pier Maria Rossi di San Secondo (c. 1535–1538)
- Madonna with the Long Neck (c. 1535–1540)
- Portrait of Camilla Gonzaga and Her Three Sons (c. 1539–1540; disputed)
- Lucretia (1540)
- Casalmaggiore Altarpiece (1540)
- Portrait of a Man in a Red Beret (c. 1540; disputed)