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National Gallery of Art - THE COLLECTION
image of Charity
Mino da Fiesole (artist)
Italian, 1429 - 1484
Charity, 1475/1480
marble
overall: 126 x 43 cm (49 5/8 x 16 15/16 in.)
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
1937.1.117
From the Tour: 15th-Century Sculpture in Tuscany
Object 5 of 6

Provenance

Purchased 1864 by Charles Timbal [1821-1880], Paris; Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; purchased 1930 from the Dreyfus estate by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[1] purchased 15 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[2] gift 1937 to NGA.

[1] Provenance prior to Mellon Trust is according to David Finley's notebook donated to the National Gallery of Art in 1977, now in the Gallery Archives.

[2] The original Duveen Brothers invoice is in Gallery Archives, copy in NGA curatorial files.

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