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Provenance

Possibly Capponi collection, Florence.[1] (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence); sold 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] According to the Kress records in NGA curatorial files.

Exhibition History

1939
Dutch and Italian Masterpieces from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Dayton Art Institute, 1939-1940, no cat., as by Pontormo.
1939
Masterworks of Five Centuries, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939, no. 47, repro., as by Pontormo.
1940
Masterpieces of Art. European & American Paintings 1500-1900, New York World's Fair, 1940, no. 12, repro., as Holy Family with Sts. Joseph, Ann, and the Young Saint John by Pontormo.
2010
Bronzino. Artist and Poet at the Court of the Medici., Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2010-2011, no. I.2, repro.

Bibliography

1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 158-159, as by Pontormo.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 249, repro. 171, as by Pontormo.
1944
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 41, repro., as by Pontormo.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 120, repro., as by Pontormo.
1951
Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 66-70, repro. 71, as by Pontormo.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 108, repro., as by Pontormo.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 307, repro., as by Pontormo.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 104, as by Pontormo.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 92, repro., as by Pontormo.
1973
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XVI-XVIII Century. London, 1973: 10-11, fig. 20.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 272, repro., as by Pontormo.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:374-376, II:pl. 271
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 187, no. 208, color repro., as by Pontormo.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 316, repro., as by Pontormo.
2004
Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 82, no. 59, color repro.

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