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  • Provenance
  • Exhibition History
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Provenance

Arnaldo Corsi, Florence.[1] possibly Icilio Federico Joni [1866-1946], Siena;[2] sold 1912 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York), as by Baldovinetti;[3] sold to William Salomon [1852-1919], New York; by inheritance to Mrs. William Salomon, New York; sold 1923 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); Clarence H. Mackay, Roslyn [1874-1938], New York, by 1924 until at least 1926; (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York), probably from Mackay; sold 1936 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] According to W.R. Valentiner, The Clarence H. Mackay Collection. Italian Schools, New York, 1976: no. 2.

[2] According to Colin Simpson, Artful Partners: Bernard Berenson and Joseph Duveen, New York, 1986: 184.

[3] According to the list of expenses for the painting in the X Book, Reel 422, Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles (copy in NGA curatorial files).

Exhibition History
1924
Loan Exhibition of Important Early Italian Paintings in the Possession of Notable American Collectors, Duveen Brothers, New York, 1924, no. 20, as by Alesso Baldovinetti (no. 9 in illustrated 1926 version of catalogue).
1925
Italian Art, Hillyer Art Gallery, Smith College, Northampton, 1925, no cat.
Bibliography
1941
Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 58, repro., as by Alesso Baldovinetti.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 10-11, no. 325, pl. I, as by Alesso Baldovinetti.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 246, repro. 60, as by Alesso Baldovinetti.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 45, repro., as by Alesso Baldovinetti.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 102.
1966
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 114-115, fig. 312.
1968
European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 90, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 268, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: I:367-358, II:pl. 266
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 311, 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: 574-577, color repro.
2013
Langhanke, Birgit. Die Madonnenreliefs im Werk von Antonio Rossellino. Ph.D. diss. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, 2013: 228, n. 156, 480 fig. 113.