Inscription
lower left on the Virgin's book: Ecce Virgo [con]cipiet [et] p / pariet fili[u]m / et uocabit / ur nom[en] eiu / [s] emanuel / butirum [et] mel / comedit ut fiat [sic] / reprobare ma / lu[m] [et] eligiere b / onum (Propter hoc dabit Dominus ipse vobis signum. Ecce virgo concipiet, et paret filium, et vocabitur nomen eius Emmanuel. Butyrum et mel comedet, ut sciat reprobare malum, et eligere bonum; Isaiah 7:14-15)
Provenance
Count Gustav Adolf Wilhelm von Ingenheim [1789-1855], Berlin and Ober-Rengersdorf, by the 1810s or 1820s;[1] sold 1930 by his descendants to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold May 1936 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1935
- Exposition de L'Art Italien de Cimbaue à Tiepolo, Petit Palais, Paris, 1935, no. 304.
- 2019
- Fra Angelico and the Rise of the Florentine Renaissance, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, 2019.
Bibliography
- 1931
- Valentiner, Wilhelm R. "Eine Verkündigung Masolinos." Pantheon 8 (October 1931): 413-416, repro.
- 1933
- Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America. 3 vols. New York and Milan, 1933: 2:187
- 1941
- Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 30, repro.
- 1941
- Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 126-127, no. 337.
- 1942
- Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 246, repro. 150.
- 1944
- Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 18, repro.
- 1945
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 27, repro.
- 1959
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 49, repro.
- 1963
- Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Florentine School. 2 vols. London, 1963: 1:137.
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 84.
- 1966
- Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 93-94, fig. 255.
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 74, repro.
- 1973
- Finley, David Edward. A Standard of Excellence: Andrew W. Mellon Founds the National Gallery of Art at Washington. Washington, 1973: 79.
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 218, repro.
- 1979
- Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:307; 2:pl. 220.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 76, no. 21, color repro.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 252, repro.
- 1993
- Roberts, Perri Lee. Masolino da Penicale. Oxford, 1993: 100, 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: 472-478, color repro.
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