Provenance
Luigi de Angelis [1758-1832, custodian of the Siena Library from 1812], Siena, by 1824.[1] Acquired 1875 through Sir John Charles Robinson [1824-1913], London, by Sir Francis Cook, 1st bt. [1817-1901], Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey;[2] by inheritance to his son, Sir Frederick Lucas Cook, 2nd bt. [1844-1920], Doughty House; by inheritance to his son, Sir Herbert Frederick Cook, 3rd bt. [1868-1939], Doughty House; by inheritance to his son, Sir Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 4th bt. [1907-1978], Doughty House, and Cothay Manor, Somerset; sold April 1946 to (Francis A. Drey, London).[3] (Wildenstein & Co., New York); purchased June 1949 by the Samuel H. Kress Collection, New York;[4] gift 1952 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1904
- Exhibition of Pictures of the School of Siena, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1904, no. 54.
- 1988
- Painting in Renaissance Siena, 1420-1500, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1988-1989, no. 62d, repro., as The Descent into Limbo (cat. by Keith Christiansen, Laurence B. Kanter, and Carl Brandon Strehlke).
Bibliography
- 1824
- De Angelis, Luigi. “Notizie delle opere di Benvenuto di Giovanni, pittore senese del secolo XV.” In “Miscellanee manoscritte.” Archives of the Gallerie Fiorentine at the Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence, ms. 60: 2(1824): no. 18, fol. 337r.
- 1897
- Berenson, Bernard. The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance. New York, 1897: 134.
- 1903
- Cook, Francis. Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond. London, 1903: 9, no. 55.
- 1903
- Crowe, Joseph Archer, and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle. A History of Painting in Italy. 6 vols. Ed. Robert Langton Douglas (vols. 1-4) and Tancred Borenius (vols. 5-6). London, 1903-1914: 5(1915):164 n. 1.
- 1903
- Destrée, Jules. Notes sur les primitifs italiens: Sur quelques peintures de Sienne. Brussels and Florence, 1903: 79.
- 1904
- Frizzoni, Gustavo. "L’esposizione d’arte senese al Burlington Fine Arts Club." L’Arte 7 (1904): 269.
- 1904
- Fry, Roger. "La mostra d’arte senese al Burlington Club di Londra." Rassegna d’Arte 4 (1904) 118.
- 1904
- Pératé, André. “Les Expositions d’art siennois à Sienne et à Londres.” Les Arts 34 (October 1904): 12.
- 1904
- Perkins, Frederick Mason. “The Sienese Exhibition of Ancient Art.” The Burlington Magazine 5 (1904): 583.
- 1908
- Crowe, Joseph Archer, and Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle. A New History of Painting in Italy from the Second to the Sixteenth Century. 3 vols. Ed. Edward Hutton. London and New York, 1908-1909: 3(1909):118 n. 3.
- 1908
- Jacobsen, Emil. Das Quattrocento in Siena. Strasbourg, 1908: 72.
- 1909
- Berenson, Bernard. The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance. 2nd ed. New York, 1909: 148.
- 1913
- Borenius, Tancred. A Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House, Richmond, and Elsewhere in the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook Bt. Italian Schools. Vol. I, Pt. 2. Edited by Herbert Cook. London, 1913: 7-8, no. 6, repro.
- 1923
- Marle, Raimond van. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. 19 vols. The Hague, 1923-1938: 16(1937):416-417.
- 1925
- Hutton, Edward. The Sienese School in the National Gallery. London, 1925: 85.
- 1930
- Berenson, Bernard. “Quadri senza casa: Il Quattrocento senese – parte 1.” Dedalo 11, no. 10 (March 1930): 643.
- 1932
- Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932: 77.
- 1932
- Brockwell, Maurice W. Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, in the Collection of Sir Herbert Cook. London, 1932:
- 1936
- Berenson, Bernard. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936: 66.
- 1951
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation 1945-1951. Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Suida. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1951: 62, no. 20, repro.
- 1954
- Bologna, Ferdinando. "Miniature di Benvenuto di Giovanni." Paragone 5, no. 51 (1954): 17, 19 n. 3.
- 1954
- Ferguson, George. Signs and Symbols in Christian Art. New York, 1954: 77.
- 1956
- Laclotte, Michel. De Giotto à Bellini: les primitifs italiens dans les musées de France. Exh. cat. Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, 1956: 35.
- 1959
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 84, repro.
- 1965
- Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 14.
- 1966
- Fredericksen, Burton B., and Darrell Davisson. Benvenuto di Giovanni, Girolamo di Benvenuto, their altarpieces in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Malibu, CA, 1966: 29, figs. 19-23.
- 1966
- Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 158-159, fig. 431.
- 1968
- Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:42.
- 1968
- National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 7, repro.
- 1972
- Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 26, 646-647.
- 1974
- Bandera, Maria Cristina. “Qualche osservazione su Benvenuto di Giovanni.” Antichità Viva 13, no. 1 (1974): 13-14, 17 nn. 40, 41.
- 1975
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 28, repro.
- 1977
- Bandera, Maria Cristina. “Variazioni ai cataloghi berensoniani di Benvenuto di Giovanni.” In Maria Grazia Ciardi Duprè Dal Poggetto and Paolo Dal Poggetto, eds. Scritti di storia dell’arte in onore di Ugo Procacci. 2 vols. Milan, 1977: 1:314.
- 1978
- Rotili, Mario. La miniature nella Badia di Cava. 2. La raccolta di miniature italiane e straniere. Cava dei Tirreni and Naples, 1978: 95, 169, fig. 39.
- 1979
- Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:66-67; 2:pl. 44.
- 1979
- Sutton, Denys. "Robert Langton Douglas. Part I." Apollo 109 (April 1979): 304 [58], 307 [61] fig. 24.
- 1981
- Worthen, Thomas Fletcher. "The Harrowing of Hell in the Art of the Italian Renaissance." 2 vols. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Iowa, Ames, 1981: 160, 500, fig. 87.
- 1985
- European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 47, repro.
- 1985
- Riedl, Peter Anselm, and Max Seidel, eds. Die Kirchen von Siena. 3 vols. Munich, 1985-2006: 2(1992):644.
- 1986
- Angelini, Alessandro. “Benvenuto di Giovanni.” In Federico Zeri, ed. La pittura in Italia. Il Quattrocento. 2 vols. Milan, 1986: 2:582.
- 1987
- Laclotte, Michel, and Elisabeth Mognetti. Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais: peinture italienne. 3rd ed. Paris, 1987: nos. 28, 29.
- 1989
- Hood, William. "Sienese Quattrocento Painting. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York." The Burlington Magazine 131 (1989): 243.
- 1990
- Carli, Enzo. "Risurrezioni a Siena." Antichità Viva 29, no. 5 (1990): 12-13, fig. 16.
- 1992
- Ladis, Andrew. "Benvenuto di Giovanni at Sixteen." Rivista d'Arte 44 (1992): 307-308.
- 1993
- Alessi, Cecilia. “Benvenuto di Giovanni.” In Luciano Bellosi, ed. Francesco di Giorgio e il Rinascimento a Siena 1450-1500. Exh. cat. Chiesa di Sant’Agostino, Siena, 1993: 519.
- 1993
- Gagliardi, Jacques. La conquête de la peinture: L’Europe des ateliers du XIIIe au XVe siècle. Paris, 1993: 549.
- 1994
- Kanter, Laurence. Italian Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. I. 13th-15th Century. Boston, 1994: 201, 203 n. 1.
- 1995
- Finarte. Dipinti Antichi. Asta 534. Sale cat. Finarte, Milan, 4 April 1995: 48.
- 1999
- Bandera, Maria Cristina. Benvenuto di Giovanni. Milan, 1999: 104, 148, 154, 158-163, 238-239, 240, 241, cat. 71.
- 2003
- Alessi, Cecilia. La Confraternita ritrovata: Benvenuto di Giovanni e Girolamo di Benvenuto nello Spedale Vecchio di Siena. Asciano (Siena), 2003: 81, 104.
- 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: 118, 120-124, color repro.
- 2004
- Hiller von Gaertringen, Rudolf. Italienische Gemälde im Städel 1300-1550: Toskana und Umbrien. Kataloge der Gemälde im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main. Mainz, 2004: 400.
- 2015
- Sallay, Dóra. Corpus of Sienese Paintings in Hungary 1420-1510. Florence, 2015: 194.
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