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Provenance

Émile Gavet [d. 1906], Paris; sold 1892, possibly through a dealer, to William Kissam Vanderbilt [1849-1920], New York, and Marble House, Newport;[1] his wife, Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt [1853-1933, later Mrs. Oliver H.P. Belmont], Newport and Paris.[2] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris), by 1931;[3] sold 1941 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1943 to NGA.

[1] See letter to the NGA from James T. Maher dated 17 July 1973, in NGA curatorial files. The bust does not appear in Émile Molinier, Collection Émile Gavet, Paris, 1894, or the catalogue for the sale of the Gavet collection at the Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 31 May - 9 June 1897.

[2] Vanderbilt and his wife were divorced in 1895, and Alva Vanderbilt married Belmont the following year.

[3] Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: reel 91, box 236, folder 21.

Exhibition History

1940
Sculpture and Carl Milles, Baltimore Museum of Art; Institute of Modern Art, Boston, 1940-1941, no. 7.

Bibliography

1944
Duveen Brothers, Inc. Duveen Sculpture in Public Collections of America: A Catalog Raisonné with illustrations of Italian Renaissance Sculptures by the Great Masters which have passed through the House of Duveen. New York, 1944: figs. 5-6, as by Donatello.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 182, repro., as by Donatello.
1976
Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 24.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 74, repro.
2007
Desiderio da Settignano: Sculptor of Renaissance Florence. Exh. cat. Musée du Louvre, Paris; Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Milan, 2007: 135, fig. 91.
2007
Pisani, Linda. "San Giovannino Battista nei busti del Rinascimento Florentino." In Jeanette Kohl and Rebecca Müller, eds. Kopf/Bild: Die Büste in Mittelalter und Frïher Neuzeit. (I Mandorli 6) Munich and Berlin, 2007: 231, no. 6, as Style of Antonio Rossellino.
2010
Bellandi, Alfredo. Gregorio di Lorenzo: Il Maestro delle Madonne di Marmo. Morbio Inferiore, 2010: 380, no. III.5.4, repro.

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