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Provenance

Probably purchased in Italy by Robert Curzon, later 14th baron Zouche [1810-1873], Pelham Park, Pulborough, Sussex; by inheritance to his son, Robert Nathaniel Cecil George Curzon, 15th baron Zouche [1851-1914], Pelham Park; by inheritance to the latter's sister, Darea Curzon, Baroness Zouche [1860-1917]; by inheritance to her cousin, Mary Cecil Frankland, Baroness Zouche [1875-1937]; sold 1920 to (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London); sold 1924 to (C. Morland Agnew and Ansdell, London).[1] (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Rome); purchased October 1929 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] "Purchased in Italy by Robert Curzon, afterward Lord Zouche," according to Agnew's stock book, no. 5905; information provided by the Getty Provenance Index.

[2] The bill of sale was for four paintings, a marble plaque, and a piece of Gothic velvet (copy in NGA curatorial files).

Bibliography
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 134, no. 140.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 242, repro. 154.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 93.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 82, repro.
1968
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 57, fig. 135.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 244, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: I:334-335, II:pl. 243.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 283, 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: 526-529, color repro.