Provenance
High altar of the church of San Marco, Florence, from about 1440 until about 1677.[1] Possibly in the passageway to the sacristy of the same church, by 1758,[2] or in the Spezieria of the Convent of San Marco (recorded here in the early 19th century).[3] possibly in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, after 1810-1812, and from here (if not directly from the Spezieria) in private hands.[4] James-Alexander, comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier [1776-1855], Paris, by 1841; (his sale, Hôtel Pourtalès-Gorgier, Paris, 27 March-4 April 1865, no. 86, as by Masaccio); probably Edmond [1822-1896] and Jules Huot [1830-1870] de Goncourt, Paris.[5] (Julius Böhler, Munich).[6] Albert Keller [1879-1939], New York, by 1924; (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[7] gift 1952 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1930
- Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1930 (listed in news article as among paintings sent to the exhibition, but not in catalogue).
- 1941
- Educational Loan Exhibition, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1941, no. 10.
- 1946
- Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. 790.
- 2005
- Fra Angelico, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2005-2006, no. 34G, repro.
- 2018
- Florence and its Painters: From Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, 2018-2019.
Bibliography
- 1945
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 32, repro.
- 1946
- Frankfurter, Alfred M. Supplement to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1946: 22, color repro.
- 1952
- Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 16, color repro.
- 1959
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 52, 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: 28, repro., color repro. pl. 24.
- 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: 8.
- 1966
- Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:22, color repro.
- 1966
- Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 94-95, fig. 258, 262.
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 2, repro.
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 12, repro.
- 1979
- Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:8-10; 2:pl. 6, 7A.
- 1984
- Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 87, no. 44, color repro.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 19, repro.
- 1997
- Southgate, M. Therese. The Art of JAMA: One Hundred Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association. St. Louis, 1997: 196-197, 215, color repro.
- 1998
- Bartz, Gabriele. Guido Di Piero, known as Fra Angelico, ca. 1395-1455. Konemann, 1998: repro. no. 48.
- 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: 13-20, color repro.
- 2013
- "Vasari and the National Gallery of Art." National Gallery of Art Bulletin 48 (Spring 2013): 11, repro.
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