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Provenance

(Matthiesen Gallery, Berlin), by 1929;[1] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York), by 1933; sold March 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1933
Esposizione della Pittura Ferrarese del Rinascimento, Pinacoteca Nazionale, Ferrara, 1933, no. 62, as by Cosmè Tura.
2002
Cosmè Tura: Painting and Design in Renaissance Ferrara, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2002, no. 16, repro., as by Follower of Cosmè Tura.

Bibliography

1930
Venturi, Adolfo. “Un ritratto di Cosmè Tura.” L’Arte 33, n.s. 1 (May 1930): 283-284, fig. 1, as by Cosmè Tura.
1933
Serra, Luigi. “La mostra della pittura ferrarese del Rinascimento.” Bollettino d’Arte 26 (1933): 580, as not by Cosmè Tura, possibly a later forgery.
1934
Longhi, Roberto. Officina Ferrarese. Rome, 1934: 40-41, figs. 47, 48, as by Marco Zoppo.
1936
Ragghianti, Carlo. “Un disegno di Marco Zoppo.” Critica d’Arte 1, no. 3 (February 1936): 139, fig. 2, as by Marco Zoppo.
1941
Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 62, repro., as by Cosmè Tura.
1941
Ortolani, Sergio. Cosmè Tura, Francesco del Cossa, Ercole de'Roberti. Milan, 1941: 64, fig. 32, as by Cosmè Tura.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 199, no. 450, as by Cosmè Tura.
1941
Richter, George Martin. "The New National Gallery in Washington." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 78 (June 1941): 178, as Attributed to Francesco del Cossa.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 248, repro. 200, as by Cosmè Tura.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 73, repro., as by Cosmè Tura.
1950
Nicolson, Benedict. The Painters of Ferrara. London, 1950: 18.
1951
Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 50 n. 1.
1953
Neppi, Alberto. Cosmè Tura: saggio critico. Milan, 1953: 85-86, 136, as by Cosmè Tura.
1957
Salmi, Mario. Cosmè Tura. Milan, 1957: 55-56, pl. 51, as by Lorenzo Costa.
1958
Ruhmer, Eberhard. Tura: Paintings and Drawings. London and New York, 1958: 21, 172, fig. 16, as by Cosmè Tura.
1959
Chastel, André. “Tura and the Secrets of Ferrara.” Art News 57, no. 10 (February 1959): 41.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 121, repro., as by Cosmè Tura.
1962
Cappi Bentivegna, Ferruccia. Abbigliamento e costuma nella pittura italiana rinascimentale. 2 vols. Rome, 1962-1964: 1(1962):88, fig. 118, as by Marco Zoppo.
1963
Bianconi, Pietro. Tutta la pittura di Cosmè Tura. Milan, 1963: 61.
1964
Bonicatti, Maurizio. Aspetti dell'Umanesimo nella pittura veneta dal 1455 al 1515. Rome, 1964: 20, as by Cosmè Tura.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 132.
1966
Ruhmer, Eberhard. Marco Zoppo. Vicenza, 1966: 52, 98, repro.
1966
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 82-83, fig. 230.
1967
Parronchi, Alessandro. “Probabila traccia per l’autore del Trionfe della Morte in Palermo.” Antichità Viva 6 (1967): 8, fig. 15.
1968
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:433, as by Cosmè Tura.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 119, repro.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: xxi, 205, 646, as by Cosmè Tura or Marco Zoppo.
1974
Molajoli, Rosemarie. L'Opera completa di Cosmè Tura e i grandi pittori ferraresi del suo tempo: Francesco Cossa e Ercole de'Roberti. Milan, 1974: 90, fig. 52.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 352, repro.
1976
Armstrong, Lilian. The Paintings and Drawings of Marco Zoppo. New York, 1976: 140, 385, fig. 30, as by Marco Zoppo.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:511-512; 2:pl. 358, as Attributed to Cosmè Tura.
1980
Ragghianti, Carlo L. “Galleria di Washington.” Critica d’Arte 45, nos. 154-156 (1980): 219-220, as by Marco Zoppo.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 403, repro.
1991
Manca, Joseph. “A Note on Cosmè Tura as Portraitist.” Antichità Viva 30, no. 3 (1991): 18-19, fig. 2.
1997
Campbell, Stephen J. Cosmè Tura of Ferrara: Style, Politics and the Renaissance City, 1450-1495. New Haven, 1997: 24-26, fig. 16.
1999
Molteni, Monica. Cosmè Tura. Milan, 1999: 25, repro.
2000
Manca, Joseph. Cosmè Tura: The Life and Art of a Painter in Estense Ferrara. Oxford, 2000: 173, fig. 113.
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: 544-547, color repro.

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