Provenance
Commissioned by Floriano Griffoni for a family chapel (the sixth off the north aisle) in the church of San Petronio, Bologna;[1] moved to the Casa Aldrovandi, Bologna, c. 1731, but no longer there in 1782.[2] Count Ugo Beni, Gubbio, by 1858;[3] purchased 1881 or at (Beni sale, Gubbio, April 1882, no. 4, as Saint Martin by Zoppo) by Joseph Spiridon [1845-1930], Paris;[4] (his sale, Cassirer and Helbing, Berlin, 31 May 1929, no. 12, as Heilige Liberalis); (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[5] sold May 1936 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[6] gift 1939 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1932
- Exhibition of Italian Renaissance Art, Wadsworth Atheneum and Morgan Memorial, Hartford, 1932, no. 17.
- 1933
- Italian Paintings of the XIV to XVI Century, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1933, no. 78.
- 1935
- Exposition de l'Art Italien de Cimabue à Tiepolo, Petit Palais, Paris, 1935, no. 122.
Bibliography
- 1872
- Guardabassi, Mariano. Indice-Guida dei Monumenti Pagani e Cristiani Riguardanti l'istoria e l'arte esistenti nella provincia dell'Umbria. 1872:104
- 1901
- Venturi, Adolfo. Storia dell'arte Italiana. 11 vols. Milan, 1901-1940: 7, part 3(1914): 598-599, repro.
- 1906
- Venturi, Adolfo. "Due quadri di Francesco del Cossa nella raccolta Spiridion a Parigi." L'Arte 9 (1906): 139-140, repro.
- 1907
- Berenson, Bernard. North Italian Painters of the Renaissance. New York and London, 1907: 202, repro.
- 1929
- Dussler, L. "Die Italienishen Bilder der Sammlung Spiridon." Pantheon III (April 1929):160, repro.
- 1929
- Fischel, Oskar. Die Sammlung Joseph Spiridon. Paris, 1929:no. 13, repro.
- 1929
- Furst, Herbert. "Art News and Notes." Apollo 9 (1929):326-327, repro.
- 1934
- Longhi, Roberto. Officina Ferrarese. Rome, 1934: 50, repro.
- 1935
- "La Mostra dell'antica arte Italiana a Parigi." Bollettino d'Arte XXIX, series III (1935):42.
- 1941
- Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 66, repro.
- 1941
- Ortolani, Sergio. Cosmé Tura, Francesco del Cossa, Ercole de'Roberti. Milan, 1941:131, repro.
- 1941
- Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 46, no. 339.
- 1942
- Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 246, repro. 88.
- 1944
- Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 32, repro.
- 1945
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 75, repro.
- 1950
- Nicolson, Benedict. The Painters of Ferrara. London, 1950:13, repro.
- 1956
- Longhi, Roberto. Officina ferrarese (1934), seguíta dagli Ampliamenti (1940) e dai Nuovi ampliamenti (1940-1955). Florence, 1956: 33, 130-131.
- 1958
- Neppi, Alberto. Francesco Del Cossa. Milan, 1958:24-26, repro.
- 1959
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 117, repro.
- 1959
- Ruhmer, Eberhard. Francesco Del Cossa. Munich, 1959:85, repro.
- 1961
- Walker, John, Guy Emerson, and Charles Seymour. Art Treasures for America: An Anthology of Paintings & Sculpture in the Samuel H. Kress Collection. London, 1961: 48, color repro.
- 1963
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 301, repro.
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 32.
- 1966
- Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 83-84, fig. 223.
- 1968
- Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:94. 2:pl.738.
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 25, repro.
- 1972
- Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1972: 56.
- 1974
- Molajoli, Rosemarie. L'Opera completa di Cosmè Tura e i grandi pittori ferraresi del suo tempo: Francesco Cossa e Ercole de'Roberti. Milan, 1974: no. 83, repro.
- 1974
- Pesenti, Franco Renzo. "Dismembered works of art - Italian painting." In An Illustrated Inventory of Famous Dismembered Works of Art: European Painting. Paris, 1974: 24, 46-47, repro.
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 80, repro.
- 1979
- Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:140-142; 2:pl. 100.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 118, no. 100, color repro.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 100, repro.
- 1985
- Mündler, Otto. "The Travel Diaries of Otto Mündler." Ed. Carol Togneri Dowd. Walpole Society 51 (1985): 246-247.
- 1992
- Santucci, Paola. La Pittura del Quattrocento. Torino, 1992:206, repro.
- 1993
- Gagliardi, Jacques. La conquête de la peinture: L’Europe des ateliers du XIIIe au XVe siècle. Paris, 1993: 493-494, fig. 600.
- 1997
- Southgate, M. Therese. The Art of JAMA: One Hundred Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association. St. Louis, 1997: 172-173, color repro.
- 1998
- Strumwasser, Gina. "Betrayal." In Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art. Edited by Helene E. Roberts. 2 vols. Chicago, 1998: 1:134
- 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: 215-222, color repro.
- 2003
- Sgarbi, Vittorio. Francesco del Cossa. Milan, 2003: 136-139, repro., 230, cat. 21.
- 2007
- Riese, Brigitte. "Lucia." In Seeman's Lexikon der Ikonographie: Religiöse und profane Bildmotive. Leipzig, 207: 271, repro.
- 2013
- "Vasari and the National Gallery of Art." National Gallery of Art Bulletin 48 (Spring 2013): 13, repro.
- 2016
- Bacchi, Andrea, and Andrea De Marchi, eds. La Galleria di Palazzo Cini. Dipinti, sculture, oggetti d'arte. Venice, 2016: 179, 182 repro.
- 2016
- Paolucci, Antonio, et al, eds. Piero della Francesca: Indagine su un mito. Exh. cat. Museo San Domenico, Forlì, 2016: 142.
- 2017
- Serres, Karen. "Duveen's Italian framemaker, Ferruccio Vannoni." The Burlington Magazine 159, no. 1370 (May 2017): 372 n. 38.
- 2023
- Ahl, Diane Cole. Painting in Fifteenth-Century Italy: "This Splendid and Noble Art". New Haven and London, 2023: 101, 103, fig. 3.21.
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