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Provenance

(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence), by May 1938;[1] purchased 1938 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1940
Night Scenes, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 1940, no. 9, repro., as Christ in the Garden.
1988
Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988-1989, no. 62a, repro. (cat. by Keith Christiansen, Laurence B. Kanter, and Carl Brandon Strehlke).

Bibliography

1824
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1897
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1903
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1903
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1903
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1904
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1904
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1904
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1904
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1908
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1908
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1909
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1913
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1923
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1925
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1930
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1932
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1932
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1936
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1941
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1942
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1951
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1954
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1954
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1956
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1959
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1965
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1966
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1966
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1968
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1968
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1972
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1974
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1975
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1977
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1978
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1979
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1985
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1985
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1986
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1987
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1988
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1989
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1990
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1992
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1993
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1993
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1994
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1995
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1999
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2003
Alessi, Cecilia. La Confraternita ritrovata: Benvenuto di Giovanni e Girolamo di Benvenuto nello Spedale Vecchio di Siena. Asciano (Siena), 2003: 81, 104.
2003
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2004
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2015
Sallay, Dóra. Corpus of Sienese Paintings in Hungary 1420-1510. Florence, 2015: 194.

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