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Inscription

upper center on the Madonna's halo: REGINA CELI LETA[RE ALLELUIA] (O Queen of Heaven, rejoice!)

Provenance

Possibly George Ashburnham, 3rd earl of Ashburnham [1760-1830], Florence and Ashburnham Place, Battle, Sussex; by inheritance to his son, Bertram Ashburnham, 4th earl of Ashburnham [1797-1878], Ashburnham Place;[1] by inheritance to his son, Bertram Ashburnham, 5th earl of Ashburnham [1840-1913], Ashburnham Place; by inheritance to his daughter, Lady Mary Catherine Charlotte Ashburnham [d. 1953], Ashburnham Place; (Robert Langton Douglas, London);[2] sold June 1919 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[3] purchased 15 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[4] gift 1937 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1932
Exhibition of Italian Renaissance Art, Wadsworth Atheneum and Morgan Memorial, Hartford, 1932, no. 14.

Bibliography

1933
Gengaro, Maria Luisa. "Matteo di Giovanni." La Diana 7 (1933): 182.
1933
Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America. 3 vols. New York and Milan, 1933: 2:pl.298.
1937
Cortissoz, Royal. An Introduction to the Mellon Collection. Boston, 1937: 13.
1941
Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 96, repro.
1941
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "On the Italian Renaissance Painters in the National Gallery: An Editorial." Art News 40, no. 3 (1941): 16, repro.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 130, no. 9.
1941
Richter, George Martin. "The New National Gallery in Washington." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 78 (June 1941): 178.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 239, repro. 152.
1949
Brandi, Cesare. Quattrocentisti senesi. Milan, 1949: 268.
1949
Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 19, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 88.
1966
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 156, fig. 423.
1968
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:261.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 77, repro.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 139, 645.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 230, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:329; 2:pl. 239.
1979
Sutton, Denys. "Robert Langton Douglas. Part III." Apollo 109 (June 1979): 448 [166] fig. 3, 452 [170].
1985
Cole, Bruce. Sienese Painting in the Age of the Renaissance. Bloomington, 1985: 94, fig. 60.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 265, repro.
1987
Trimpi, Erica S. "Matteo di Giovanni: Documents and a Critical Catalogue of his Panel Paintings." Ph.D. diss. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1987: 237-238, 239.
1993
Angelini, Alessandro. "Matteo di Giovanni." In Luciano Bellosi, ed. Francesco di Giorgio e il Rinasicmento a Siena 1450-1500. Exh. cat. Chiesa di Sant'Agostino, Siena, 1993: 526.
2002
Dabell, Frank. “La fortuna di Matteo di Giovanni tra Inghliterra e Stati Uniti dall’Otto e Novecento.” In Davide Gasparotto and Serena Magnani, eds. Matteo di Giovanni e la pala d’altare nel senese e nell’aretino 1450-1500. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studi (Sansepolcro, 9-10 Ottobre 1998). Montepulciano, 2002: 18.
2003
Boskovits, Miklós, David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2003: 505-508, color repro.
2006
Angelini, Alessandro. “Matteo di Giovanni: percorso esemplare di un quattrocentista senese.” In Cecilia Alessi and Alessandro Bagnoli, eds. Matteo di Giovanni: Cronaca di una strage dipinta. Exh. cat. Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, 2006: 18.

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