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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). See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1323.

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
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. 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. Washington, 1979: 1:539; 2: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.
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