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Provenance

Commissioned c. 1530/1540 by Giulia Muzzarelli, Ferrara. possibly Cardinale Luigi d'Este, Tivoli, by 1573 until at least 1580.[1] Borghese collection, Rome, as by Scarsellino.[2] Littlehales, London; (Littlehales sale, Christie's, London, 2 March 1804, no. 67, as by Palma Giovane, bought in). Robert Fagan and Charles Grignion, Rome; (Fagan and Grignion sale, Squibb, London, 29 May 1806, no. 50, as by Carracci, sale postponed from 26 May 1806). Charles John Howard, 17th earl of Suffolk [1804-1876], Charlton Park, Wiltshire, by 1854. (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence and Rome); sold 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1939 to NGA.

Bibliography

1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 87, no. 87, as The Assumption of the Virgin.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 249, repro. 121, as The Assumption of the Virgin.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 126, repro., as The Assumption of the Virgin.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 171, repro., as The Assumption of the Virgin.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 59, as The Assumption of the Virgin.
1968
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central and North Italian Schools, 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:189.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 51, repro.
1968
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 81-82, fig. 197, 199.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 92, 646.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 154, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:226-227, 2:pl. 153.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 178, repro.
1990
Turrill, Catherine. "Girolamo da Carpi's Muzzarelli Altarpiece." Studies in the History of Art 24 (1990):75-86, repro.
1998
Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane. "Virgin/Virginity." In Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art. Edited by Helene E. Roberts. 2 vols. Chicago, 1998: 2:905.
2021
Pattanaro, Alessandra. Girolamo da Carpi. Milan, 2021: 76, 79-80, 138-139, 189, 218-221, cat. 39, figs. 31a-c.

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