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Provenance

Niccolò d'Attimis, Conte Maniago, Spilimbergo (near Udine in Friuli); purchased 1916 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[1] on approval to Carl W. Hamilton [1886-1967], New York, by 1920, and returned 1921;[2] sold 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] The name "Olivotti" is recorded next to the date and amount of the purchase, possibly indicating an agent for the transaction (X Book, Reel 422, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles).

[2] According to Edward Fowles (Memories of Duveen Brothers, London, 1976: 127-129), a large collection of Italian paintings was offered on approval to Hamilton by 1920, but he did not purchase them and returned them to Duveen the following year.

[3] The Duveen Brothers letter confirming the sale of twenty-four paintings, including NGA 1939.1.352, is dated 9 March 1937; the provenance is given as "Maniago Collection" (copy in NGA curatorial files; Box 474, Folder 5, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles).

Exhibition History

1924
Loan Exhibition of Important Early Italian Paintings in the Possession of Notable American Collectors, Duveen Brothers, New York, 1924, no. 47 (no. 44 in illustrated 1926 version of catalogue).
1932
Exhibition of Italian Renaissance Art, Wadsworth Atheneum and Morgan Memorial, Hartford, 1932, no. 8.
2004
Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2004, no. 306, repro., as Icon of the Virgin and Child.

Bibliography

1941
Duveen 1941, fig. 80.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 21.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 248, repro. 70.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 90, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 12
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 4, repro.
1968
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 39, fig. 94.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 20, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:56-57, II:pl. 32
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 40, 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: 56-59, color repro.

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