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  • Provenance
  • Exhibition History
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Provenance

William G. Coesvelt, London, in 1836;[1] (his sale, Christie & Manson, London, 13 June 1840, no. 37, as by Raphael); purchased by Farquhar.[2] Granville Edward Harcourt Vernon [1816-1861], Grove Hall, Nottinghamshire, England, by 1857; by inheritance to his wife, Lady Selina Vernon [later Lady Hervey], until at least 1894.[3] (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence and Rome); sold 1935 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] Included in Collection of Pictures of W.G. Coesvelt, Esq., of London, London, 1836: no. 80, as by "Raffaelle".

[2] According to an annotated copy of the sale catalogue, noted in Kress collection records, in NGA curatorial files.

[3] Lady Hervey lent the painting to exhibitions in 1883 and 1893-1894.

[4] Fern Rusk Shapley, Catalogue of the Italian Paintings, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 1:361-362.

Exhibition History
1857
Art Treasures of the United Kingdom: Paintings by Ancient Masters, Art Treasures Palace, Manchester, 1857, no. 144, as by Raphael.
1883
Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters. Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy, London, 1883, no. 176, as by Raphael.
1893
Exhibition of Early Italian Art from 1300 to 1550, New Gallery, London, 1893-1894, no. 246, as by Raphael.
1979
Berenson and the Connoisseurship of Italian Painting, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1979, no. 84, as by Perugino.
1983
Raphael and America, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983, no. 24, repro.
Bibliography
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 149, no. 266, as by Pietro Perugino.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 245, repro. 164, as by Pietro Perugino.
1944
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 39, repro., as by Perugino.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 68, repro., as by Perugino.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 94, repro., as by Pietro Perugino.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 100, as by Pietro Perugino.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 88, repro.
1968
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 103-104, fig. 254.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 262, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:361-362, II:pl. 260
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 108, no. 80, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 175, repro.
2011
Pergam, Elizabeth A. The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857: Entrepreneurs, Connoisseurs and the Public. Farnham and Burlington, 2011: 190 n. 57, 312.