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Provenance

Possibly Marchesi of Villafranca, Italy. Marquès de la Romana, Madrid; by bequest to Marquès de Villamayor, Madrid; purchased by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York).[1] Clarence H. Mackay [1874-1938], Roslyn, New York, by 1926;[2] sold 1936 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1939 to NGA.

[1] The early provenance is according to a statement by the Marchesa de Villamayor (copy in NGA curatorial files).

[2] Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Clarence H. Mackay Collection. Italian Schools, New York, 1926: no. 8.

[3] Fern Rusk Shapley, Catalogue of the Italian Paintings, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 1:362-363. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1325.

Exhibition History
1983
Raphael and America, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1983, no. 61, repro.
2004
Perugino: il divin pittore, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria, Perugia, 2004, no. 36, repro.
2014
Le Pérugin: Maître de Raphaël, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 2014-2015, no. 31, repro.
Bibliography
1926
Valentiner, W.R. The Clarence H. Mackay Collection. New York, 1926: 1, 5, no. 8, repro.
1941
Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 132, repro.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 149, no. 326.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 246, repro. 165.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 69, repro.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 95, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 100.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 88, repro.
1968
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 99, fig. 239.
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: 1:362-363; 2:pl. 261.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 108, no. 79, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 303, repro.
1996
Meyer zur Capellen, Jürg. Raphael in Florence. London, 1996:149, no. 88, 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: 562-564, color repro.
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