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Provenance

Barberini Collection, Rome.[1] (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Rome), by 1929.[2] purchased 1932 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] According to National Gallery of Art, Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture, Washington, D.C., 1941: 77.

[2] According to Il settecento italiano, Exh. cat., Palazzo della Biennale, Venice, 1929: 48.

[3] According to a typed notation in the Kress records, NGA curatorial files, and An Exhibition of Italian Paintings Lent by Mr. Samuel H. Kress of New York to Museums, Colleges and Art Galleries, 1st catalogue, 1932-1933; 2nd expanded catalogue, 1933-1935.

Exhibition History

1929
Il Settecento Italiano, Palazzo della Biennale, Venice, no. 28.
1932
An Exhibition of Italian Paintings Lent by Mr. Samuel H. Kress of New York to Museums, Colleges, and Art Associations, travelling exhibition, 24 venues, 1932-1935, mostly unnumbered catalogues, p. 33 and p. 37, repro., as by Vittore Ghislandi.
1938
Exhibition of Venetian Paintings from the Fifteenth Century through the Eighteenth Century, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1938, no. 27, repro.
1938
Tiepolo and His Contemporaries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1938, no. 1, repro.
1938
Venetian Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. Seattle Art Museum; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Montgomery Art Museum, 1938, no cat.
1939
Masterpieces of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300-1800, New York World's Fair, 1939, no. 143.

Bibliography

1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 76-77.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 243, repro. 11
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 228, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 58.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 50, repro.
1972
Fredericksen and Zeri 1972, 84.
1973
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 106, fig. 198.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 152, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:206, II:pl. 142, 142A.
1982
Gozzoli, Maria Cristina. "Vittore Ghislandi detto Fra' Galgario." In I pittori bergamaschi 5, I (1982): 127, no. 173, 173, fig. 6.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 174, repro.
1996
De Grazia, Diane, and Eric Garberson, with Edgar Peters Bowron, Peter M. Lukehart, and Mitchell Merling. Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1996: 113-116, repro. 114.

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