Provenance
Possibly the Medici family, Florence, by 1492.[1] (Stefano Bardini [1836-1922], Florence). (Professor Luigi Grassi [1858-1937], Florence); purchased January 1923 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York).[2] Henry Goldman [1857-1937], New York, by 1924.[3] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold March 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1939 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1924
- Loan Exhibition of Important Early Italian Paintings in the Possession of Notable American Collectors, Duveen Brothers, New York, 1924, no. 23, as The Deposition by Fra Angelico (no. 4 in illustrated 1926 version of catalogue).
- 2018
- Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2018.
Bibliography
- 1941
- Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 40, repro.
- 1941
- Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 6, no. 371.
- 1942
- Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 56, as by Fra Angelico.
- 1944
- Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 29, repro.
- 1945
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 31, repro.
- 1959
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 51, repro., as by Fra Angelico.
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 8.
- 1966
- Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 97-98, fig. 257.
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 2, repro.
- 1973
- Finley, David Edward. A Standard of Excellence: Andrew W. Mellon Founds the National Gallery of Art at Washington. Washington, 1973: 79.
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 14, repro.
- 1979
- Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:425-427; 2:pl. 305, as Attributed to Jacopo del Sellaio.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 86, no. 42, color repro.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 20, 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: 31-35, color repro.
- 2014
- Flanigan, Theresa. "Art, Memory and the Cultivation of Virtue: The Ethical Function of Images in Antonius's Opera a ben vivere." Gesta 53, no. 2 (Fall 2014): 191-192, fig. 6.
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