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Provenance

Probably John Smith-Barry [b. 1725], Marbury Hall, Northwich, Cheshire;[1] by inheritance to his son, James Hugh Smith-Barry [1748/1749-1801], Marbury Hall; by inheritance to his illegitimate son, John Smith-Barry [1793-1837], Marbury Hall; by inheritance to his son, James Hugh Smith-Barry [1816-1856], Marbury Hall; by inheritance to his son, Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry, 1st [and last] baron Barrymore [1843-1925], Marbury Hall; (his estate sale, Sotheby's, London, 21 June 1933, no. 89, as by Mantegna); acquired by Borenius for (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[2] sold March 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] The preface to the 1933 sale catalogue discusses the history of the collection, and the Smith-Barry family owners are detailed by the Getty Provenance Index; see also Burke's Irish Family Records, London, 1976: 76-77.

[2] The List of purchasers and prices realized, in the NGA Library copy of the sale catalogue, confirms that no. 89 was purchased by Dr. Borenius. According to an annotated copy of the sales catalogue in the Waterhouse collection at the Getty Research Institute, Borenius was buying for Duveen.

[3] The Duveen Brothers letter confirming the sale of twenty-four paintings, including NGA 1939.1.266, is dated 9 March 1937; the provenance is given as "Lord Barrymore Collection" (copy in NGA curatorial files; Box 474, Folder 5, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles).

Exhibition History

1909
National Loan Exhibition, Grafton Galleries, London, 1909-1910, no. 88.
2008
Correggio e l'antico, Museo Galleria di Villa Borghese, Rome, 2008, no. 1, repro.

Bibliography

1941
Duveen 1941, fig. 79, as by Andrea Mantegna.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 121-122, as by Andrea Mantegna.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 145, as by Andrea Mantegna.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 86, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 134, repro., as by Andrea Mangtegna.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 82, as by Andrea Mantegna.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 73, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.
1968
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 26, fig. 59.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 214, repro., as by Andrea Mantegna.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:300-301, II:pl. 214, as by Andrea Mantegna.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 248, repro.
2003
Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 2003: 448-451, color repro.

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