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Provenance

Purchased 1880 in Florence by Charles Fairfax Murray [1849-1919] for John Ruskin [1819-1900], Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria;[1] by inheritance to his cousin, Joan Ruskin Agnew Severn [1846-1924, Mrs. Arthur Severn], Brantwood; by inheritance to her husband, Joseph Arthur Pallison Severn [1842-1931], Brantwood; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 May 1931, no. 66); purchased by Spanish Art Gallery.[2] (French & Co., New York), by 1938;[3] purchased 1945 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1961 to NGA.

[1] E.T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds., The Works of John Ruskin, London, 1903-1912, volume II of the letters, p. 311.

[2] Annotated sales catalogue reproduced in James S. Dearden, Sales & exhibition catalogues relating to John Ruskin, Oxford microfiche, 1981.

[3] The work was lent by French & Co. to an exhibition at the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1938.

Exhibition History

1938
Eighteenth Loan Exhibition of Old Masters: Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance Sculptures [cover title: Italian Sculpture 1250-1500], Detroit Institute of Arts, 1938, no. 62, repro.
1946
Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. A-159.

Bibliography

1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 409, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 166
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 146, repro.
1971
Dearden, James S. "John Ruskin's art collection - a centenary." Connoisseur 178, no. 715 (September 1971): 29+
1976
Middeldorf, Ulrich. Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: European Schools XIV-XIX Century. London, 1976: 36.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 630, no. 979, repro.
1993
Clegg, Jeanne, and Paul Tucker. Ruskin and Tuscany. Sheffield, 1993: 115, no. 232, repro.
1994
Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 196, repro.

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