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Provenance

Main altar(?) of San Niccolò Oltrarno, Florence; in the church until the 1790s.[1] Tommaso Puccini [1749-1811], Villa a Scornia, near Pistoia, by c. 1803-1805.[2] his nephew, Niccolò Puccini [1799-1852];[3] Niccolò's sister, who married a member of the Tucci family;[4] Marchese Alessandro Tucci and his co-heirs from the Spada family, Pistoia, by 1899.[5] Posibly art market, Rome, by 1928.[6] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence); purchased June 1937 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[7] gift 1939 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1899
Esposizione di arte antica, Pistoia, 1899, no. 29, room XVI, as by Anonymous Tuscan painter of the 15th century.
2006
Gentile da Fabriano e l'altro Rinascimento [Gentile da Fabriano and the Other Renaissance], Spedale di Santa Maria del Buon Gesù, Fabriano, 2006, no. VI.3i (printed on first page of entry as VI.3h), repro., as Pilgrims at the Tomb of St. Nicholas.
2010
Treasures of Heaven: Relics, Saints, and Devotion in Medieval Europe, The Cleveland Museum of Art; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, 2010 - 2011, no. 67, repro.

Bibliography

1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 75, no. 379, as A Miracle of Saint Nicholas..
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 109.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 24, repro.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 45, repro.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 298, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 56.
1966
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 77-78, fig. 211.
1968
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central and North Italian Schools, 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:165. 2:pl.533.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 48, 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: 148, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:197-199; 2:pl. 137.
1982
Christiansen, Keith. Gentile da Fabriano. London, 1982: 46-47, 104, 105, fig. 59.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 76, no. 22, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 171, repro.
1992
De Marchi, Andrea. Gentile da Fabriano: Un viaggio nella pittura italiana alla fine del gotico. Milan, 1992: 177, 180-184, 192 n. 120, pl. 65.
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: 293-299, color repro.
2008
Campigli, Marco, and Galli, Aldo. Donatello e il primo Rinascimento. Florence, 2008: 185, 186, as part of the Quaratesi polyptych.
2010
Nagel, Alexander and Christopher Wood. Anachronic Renaissance. Brooklyn, 2010: 336-337, 340, fig. 27.2.
2013
"Vasari and the National Gallery of Art." National Gallery of Art Bulletin 48 (Spring 2013): 17, repro.

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