National Gallery of Art :: The Collection :: The Death of Saint Anthony
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Provenance

Private collection, Rome; (Sestieri's, Rome); (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence); sold July 1948 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1952 to NGA.

[1] The Kress Foundation made an offer to Contini-Bonacossi on 7 June 1948 for a group of twenty-eight paintings, including The Death of Saint Anthony; the offer was accepted on 11 July 1948 (see copies of correspondence in NGA curatorial files).

Exhibition History

1988
Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988-1989, no. 10h, repro., as The Funeral of Saint Anthony by the Master of the Osservanza.
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.
2010
Da Jacopo della Quercia a Donatello. Le Arti a Siena nel Primo Rinascimento, Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, 2010, no. C.34h, repro.

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: 46, repro., as The Obsequies of St. Anthony Abbot by Master of the Osservanza Altarpiece.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 42, repro., as by Sassetta.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 120, as by Sassetta and Assistant.
1966
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 141-143, fig. 382.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 108, repro., as by Sassetta and Assistant.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 320, repro., as by Sassetta and Assistant.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:319-323, II:pl. 233, as Master of the Osservanza Triptych.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 80, no. 29, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 368, repro.
2003
Boskovits, Miklós, David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2003: 481-495, color repro., as by Master of the Osservanza (Sano di Pietro).

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