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Provenance

Part of a predella, possibly that of the main altarpiece of the church of San Bernardo in Arezzo, which was subsequently removed from the altar and dismembered, but remained in the adjacent monastery of the Olivetans until at least 1767.[1] probably Michele Cavaleri, Milan, by the mid-nineteenth century or later;[2] acquired 1873 by Enrico (Henri) Cernuschi [1821-1896], Paris and Menton.[3] Édouard Aynard [1837-1913], Lyons, by 1900;[4] (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1-4 December 1913, 1st day, no. 52); Hoentschel.[5] Mme Douine, Château de la Boissière, Seine-et-Oise; (Wildenstein & Co., Inc., New York); sold December 1942 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[6] gift 1952 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1946
Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. 804.

Bibliography

1909
Berenson, Bernard. The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, 3rd ed. London, 1909: 151.
1913
“La Collection Édouard Aynard.” La Chronique des Arts et de la curiosité 35 (22 November 1913): 279, 287.
1914
Bode, Wilhelm von. “Der Versteiherung der Sammlung Edouard Aynard in Paris.” Kunstmarkt 11 (1914): 122.
1923
Marle, Raimond van. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. 19 vols. The Hague, 1923-1938: 10(1928):459 n. 2.
1932
Berenson, Bernard. “Quadri senza casa: il Quattrocento fiorentino – 1” Dedalo 12, no. 7 (1932): 539, 540, repro.
1940
Paatz, Walter, and Elisabeth Paatz. Die Kirchen von Florenz: ein kunstgeschichtliches Handbuch. 6 vols. Frankfurt am Main, 1940-1954: 4:353 n. 26.
1942
Oertel, Robert. Fra Filippo Lippi. Vienna, 1942: 66, 68, pl. 51.
1944
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 29, repro.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 33, repro.
1946
Comstock, Helen. “Installation of Recent Additions to the Kress Collection.” Connoissuer 118 (September 1946): 38.
1947
Italian Paintings. Exh. cat. Wildenstein and Company, New York, 1947: n.p. [5].
1949
Pittaluga, Mary. Fra Filippo Lippi. Florence, 1949: 194, fig. 53.
1951
Frankfurter, Alfred. "Washington: Celebration Evaluation." Art News 50 (April, 1951): 89.
1952
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 20, color repro.
1952
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Interpreting Masterpieces: Twenty-four Paintings from the Kress Collection." Art News Annual 16 (1952): 89, repro. 86
1954
Ferguson, George. Signs and Symbols in Christian Art. New York, 1954: fig. 60.
1957
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 15.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 53, 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: 29, repro., color repro. pl. 25.
1963
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Florentine School. 2 vols. London, 1963: 1:114.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 299, repro.
1963
Zeri, Federico. “La mostra ‘L’arte in Valdelsa’ a Certaldo.” Bollettino d’Arte 48 (1963): 249.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 76.
1966
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:28, color repro.
1966
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 107-108, fig. 290, 292.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 67, repro.
1970
Berenson, Bernard. "Fra Angelico, Fra Filippo and theri Chronology." In Bernard Berenson. Homeless Paintings of the Renaissance. Ed. Hanna Kiel. London and Bloomington, IN, 1970: 168, fig. 295, frontispiece.
1971
Zeri, Federico, with Elizabeth Gardner. Italian Paintings. A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Florentine School. New York, 1971: 87-88.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 107, 646.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 196, repro.
1975
Marchini, Giuseppe. Filippo Lippi. Milan, 1975: 14, 26, 97-98, 166, 168, 205, cat. 25, pl. 46.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:264-265; 2:pl. 180.
1980
Garmier, Jean-François. "Le Goût du moyen-âge chez les collectionneurs lyonnais du XIXe siècle." Revue de l'Art 47 (1980): 59, 64 n. 153.
1980
Verdon, Timothy. Monastic Themes in Renaissance Art: A Walking Tour of Italian Paintings and Sculpture in the National Gallery. Washington, 1980: n.p. [15-16], repro.
1980
Wohl, Hellmut. The Paintings of Domenico Veneziano. Oxford, 1980: 18.
1982
Ruda, Jeffery. Filippo Lippi Studies: Naturalism, Style, and Iconography in Early Renaissance Art. New York, 1982: 127 n. 8.
1983
Rowlands, Eliot W. “Filippo Lippi’s Stay in Padua and Its Impact on His Art.” Ph.D. diss., Rutgers University, 1983: 195 n. 361.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 86, no. 43, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 230, repro.
1986
Tozzini Cellai, Valeria. L’arte del Rinascimento: Filippo Lippi. Prato, 1986: 168-169, no. 40.
1991
Kopper, Philip. America's National Gallery of Art: A Gift to the Nation. New York, 1991: 6, color repro.
1993
Ruda, Jeffrey. Fra Filippo Lippi: Life and Work with a Complete Catalogue. London, 1993: 177-182, 413-414, 446, 487, pls. 100, 101, 251.
1997
Mannini, Maria Pia, and Marco Fagioli. Filippo Lippi: Catalogo completo. Florence, 1997: 105-106, 107, cat. 27.
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: 410-415, color repro.

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