The Presentation and Marriage of the Virgin, and the Annunciation

1520/1525

Benedetto Diana

Artist, Venetian, c. 1460 - 1525

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on panel

  • Credit Line

    Samuel H. Kress Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 37.1 x 163.8 cm (14 5/8 x 64 1/2 in.)
    framed: 48.7 x 175.3 x 7 cm (19 3/16 x 69 x 2 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1961.9.70

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

William Graham [1817-1885], London, by 1879;[1] (his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 2-3 and 8-10 April 1886, 4th day, no. 330, as by Cima da Conegliano, bought in by Agnew's for executors of Graham estate); Sir Kenneth Muir-Mackenzie, 1st baron Muir-Mackenzie [1845-1930], London;[2] by inheritance to his daughter, Dorothea Muir-Mackenzie Hambourg [Mrs. Mark Hambourg], London, until at least 1936.[3] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence and Rome); sold 1950 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1961 to NGA.
[1] The painting was exhibited by him at the Royal Academy, London, in 1879, as by Cima da Conegliano.
[2] A copy of the 1886 sale catalogue in the NGA Library is annotated with the buyer's name "Agnew." Ellis Waterhouse wrote to Fern Rusk Shapley on 22 July 1980 (in NGA curatorial files) that Graham's daughters could not agree how to divide up what they wanted, so Agnew's bought in at the sale for the family, and the daughters (Lady Hailsham, Lady Horner, Lady Jekyll and Lady Muir-Mackenzie) divided the paintings according to the prices at which they were bought in. Lady Muir-Mackenzie, who died in 1900, must have acquired NGA 1961.9.70, although it is her husband's name that is published as the owner.
[3] The painting is listed as in her collection in Bernard Berenson, Pitture Italieane del Rinascimento, Milan, 1936: 146.
[4] See The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2270.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1912

  • A Collection of Pictures of the Early Venetian School and Other Works of Art, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1912, no. 54 (no. 40 and pl. XVIII of the illustrated catalogue titled Early Venetian Pictures and Other Works of Art).

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: 108, no. 44, repro.

1959

  • Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 147, repro.

1965

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 41.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 35, repro.

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 56, fig. 130-132.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 106, repro.

1979

  • Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:155-157; 2:pl. 110.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 130, repro.

Wikidata ID

Q20175702

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