Inscription
on halo of central saint: .SANCTA.VREVLA.VIRGO. (original inscription, miscorrected during an early restoration, was "VRSVLS"); on halo of saint in upper right:.ANGELVS.; on halo of saint in upper left: .ANGELVS.; below nun in lower left, partially legible, "o" above the other letters: Suora .Ginevera.
Provenance
Grand Duke Georg II Saxe-Meiningen [1826-1914], who possibly acquired it during the third quarter of the nineteenth century in Florence;[1] by 1900 in his castle at Meiningen, Saxony;[2] sold in the mid- or late 1920s.[3] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold March 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1939 to NGA.
Bibliography
- 1941
- Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: nos. 49-50, repros.
- 1941
- Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 90, no. 376.
- 1942
- Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 122.
- 1945
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 46, repro.
- 1959
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 63, repro.
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 61.
- 1966
- Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 115-116, fig. 315.
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 53, repro.
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 160, repro.
- 1979
- Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:228; 2:pl. 154
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 185, 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: 342-345, color repro.