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Sacred Conversation––Madonna and Child with Saints and Donor
Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti (Italian, Venetian, active 1485–1526/27)

Title

Sacred Conversation––Madonna and Child with Saints and Donor

Artist

Giovanni di Niccolò Mansueti (Italian, Venetian, active 1485–1526/27)

Date

c. 1505

Medium

tempera and oil on panel

Dimensions

24 1/4 × 39 7/8 in. (61.6 × 101.3 cm)

Classification

Painting

Credit Line

Gift of Mrs. Elsa Koenig and Madie Koenig in memory of William Koenig

Object Number

1936.605

On View

On view

Provenance

With Galerie Sanct Lucas, Vienna, by 1936;
Purchased from Galerie Sanct Lucas by Madie Guttmann (née Koenig), Vienna, July 7, 1936;
Her gift to Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, 1936 [1].

[1] Madie Guttman gave the donation with her mother, Elsa Koenig, in memory of her father, William H. Koenig (1863-1916), a prominent Omaha businessman.

Exhibition History

Notable Collections at Joslyn, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, November 30, 1956–January 1, 1957.

Angels and Urchins: Images of Children at the Joslyn, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, November 15, 1980–January 4, 1981, no. 8.

Titian to Monet: European Paintings from Joslyn Art Museum, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA, October 14, 2022–January 8, 2023; Rembrandt to Monet: 500 Years of European Painting from Joslyn Art Museum, Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, February 22–May 28, 2023.

Published References

Sandra Miller, “Giovanni Mansueti: A Little Master of the Venetian Quattrocento,” Revue Roumaine d'Histoire de l'Art : Série Beaux-Arts Tome XV (1978): 98.

Hollister Sturges, Angels and Urchins: Images of Children at the Joslyn, exh. cat. (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1980), 17, (repro.).

Holliday T. Day and Hollister Sturges, eds., Joslyn Art Museum: Paintings & Sculpture from the European & American Collections (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 1987), 26, 27, (repro.).

Taylor J. Acosta, European Paintings and Sculpture from Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha: Joslyn Art Museum, 2020), 52–53, (repro.).