National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Louis of Toulouse [far left panel]
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Provenance

Sir Francis Cook, 1st bt. [1817-1901], Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, by 1888;[1] by inheritance to his son, Sir Frederick Lucas Cook, 2nd bt. [1844-1920], Doughty House; by inheritance to his son, Sir Herbert Frederick Cook, 3rd bt. [1868-1939], Doughty House; by inheritance to his son, Sir Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 4th bt. [1907-1978], Doughty House, and Cothay Manor, Somerset;[2] (Francis A. Drey, London); sold February 1947 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1952 to NGA.

[1] Fritz Harck, "Verzeichnis der Werke des Cosma Tura," Jb Berlin 9 (1888): 37.

[2] The bill of sale to the Kress Foundation (see note 3) states that the painting was from "the collection of the late Sir Herbert Cook of Richmond (Surrey) England." The 4th Bt. inherited the collection and managed its dispersal after World War II with the trustees of the Cook estate.

[3] Drey sold five Cook paintings to the Kress Foundation, including Tura's "Annunciation with Two Saints" (bill of sale dated 18 February 1947; copy in NGA curatorial files).

Exhibition History

1894
Exhibition of Pictures, Drawings & Photographs of Works of the School of Ferrara-Bologna, 1440-1540, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1894, no. 5.
2005
Masterpieces in Miniature: Italian Manuscript Illumination from the J. Paul Getty Museum, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2005-2006, not in brochure.

Bibliography

1951
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 74, no. 26, repro.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 123, repro., as The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Maurelius.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 132, as The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Maurelius.
1966
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 82, fig. 226-229.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 119, repro., as The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Maurelius.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 352, repro., as The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Maurelius.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:510-511, II:pl. 357
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 403, repro., as The Annunciation with Saint Francis and Saint Maurelius.
1997
Campbell, Stephen J. Cosme Tura of Ferrara: Style, Politics and the Renaissance City, 1450-1495. Yale University Press, 1997: 65-69, repro. no. 48.
2002
Campbell, Stephen J. Cosmè Tura: Painting and Design in Renaissance Ferrara. Exh. cat. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2002: 142, 143 fig. 63, 157.
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: 660-665, color repro.

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