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Giovanni Bellini (artist) Italian, c. 1430/1435 - 1516 Saint Jerome Reading, 1505 oil on panel painted surface: 47 x 37.5 cm (18 1/2 x 14 3/4 in.) support: 48.9 x 39.5 cm (19 1/4 x 15 9/16 in.) framed: 62.9 x 52.9 x 6 cm (24 3/4 x 20 13/16 x 2 3/8 in.) Samuel H. Kress Collection 1939.1.217 |
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Provenance
Frederick John Monson, 5th baron Monson [1809-1841], Gatton Park, near Reigate, Surrey; by inheritance to his cousin, William John Monson, 6th baron Monson [1796-1862], Gatton Park and Burton Hall, Lincolnshire; by inheritance to his son, William John Monson, viscount Oxenbridge and 7th baron Monson [1829-1898], Burton Hall, Lincolnshire; (Monson sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 12 May 1888, no. 12); purchased by Murray. Charles Butler [1822-1910], London and Warren Wood, Hatfield, Hertford; purchased 1891 by Robert Henry [1850-1929] and Evelyn Holford [1856-1943] Benson, London and Buckhurst Park, Sussex; sold 1927 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); probably sold by 1929 to Clarence H. Mackay [1874-1938], Roslyn, New York; (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold May 1936 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1939 to NGA.
[1] The Duveen Brothers letter confirming the sale of thirteen paintings and one sculpture, including NGA 1939.1.217, is dated 18 May 1936; the provenance is given as "Benson Coll'n" (copy in NGA curatorial files; Box 474, Folder 5, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles).
Associated Names
- Benson, Robert Henry and Evelyn Holford
- Christie, Manson & Woods, Ltd.
- Duveen Brothers, Inc.
- Kress Foundation, Samuel H.
- Mackay, Clarence H.
- Monson, 5th baron Monson, Frederick John
- Monson, 6th baron Monson, William John
- Monson, 7th baron Monson and viscount Oxenbridge, William John
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