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  • Provenance
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Provenance

Sir Edward Smithson, Surrey; (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence); sold 23 June 1933 to the Samuel H. Kress Collection, New York;[1] gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] The bill of sale was for a total of ten paintings (copy in NGA curatorial files).

Exhibition History
1938
Exhibition of Venetian Painting From the Fifteenth Century through the Eighteenth Century, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, June-July 1938, no. 76, repro.
1938
Special Exhibition of Venetian Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, Seattle Art Museum; Portland Art Museum, Oregon; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama, August-October 1938, no catalogue.
Bibliography
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 212, no. 229.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 244, repro. 207.
1944
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: repro. no. 87
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 88, repro.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 135, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 136.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 124, repro.
1968
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 32-33, fig. 73.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 368, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:539, II:pl. 375
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 427, 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: 683-685, color repro.