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Provenance

Probably executed for a member of the Medici family.[1] In the later 19th century, possibly in private collections in Paris[2] and London.[3] (Charles Sedelmeyer, Paris), by 1914;[4] sold May 1925 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York).[5] Geneviève Garvan Brady [Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady, became in 1937 Mrs. William J. Babington Macauley], Manhasset, Long Island, New York, by 1932;[6] William J. Babington Macauley; on consignment from 1939 with (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[7] sold January 1942 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[8] gift 1943 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1925
Cincinnati Art Museum, 1925 (according to the Duveen prospectus in NGA curatorial files; can not be confirmed).
1926
The Third Loan Exhibition of Old Masters. A Loan Exhibition from Detroit Private Collections, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1926, no. 6, as by Botticelli.
1946
Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. 714.
2015
Money and Beauty: Botticelli and the Renaissance in Florence, The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu-shi, 2015-2016, no. 54, repro. (shown only in Tokyo).

Bibliography

1914
Hundred Masterpieces of the Sedelmeyer Gallery. Paris, 1914: 132, no.63, repro., as by Fra Filippo Lippi.
1932
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932: 104, as by Botticelli.
1936
Berenson, Bernard. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936: 90, as by Botticelli.
1936
Gamba, Carlo. Botticelli. Milan, 1936: 87-88, pl. 3, as by Botticelli.
1938
Mesnil, Jacques. Botticelli. Paris, 1938: 194 n. 10.
1942
Bettini, Sergio. Botticelli. Milan, 1942: 6.
1944
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Another Great Kress Gift to the National Gallery." Art News 42 (November 1-14, 1944): 21.
1944
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 30, repro., as by Botticelli.
1945
[Borenius, Tancred]. “Editorial: The New Kress Gift to the National Gallery, Washington.” The Burlington Magazine 86, no. 504 (March 1945): 55.
1945
Comstock, Helen. “A Gift of Italian Art to the National Gallery.” Connoisseur 102, no. 446 (June 1945): 104.
1945
H. N. “Un’ altro donazione Kress di opere d’arti Italiana." Emporium 101 (1945): 93
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 54, repro., as by Botticelli.
1946
Podestà, Attilio. “Note e commenti.” Emporium 103 (1946): 195, repro., as by Botticelli.
1951
Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 49.
1955
Pucci, Emilio. Botticelli nella opera e nella vita del suo tempo. Milan, 1955: 64, as by Botticelli.
1958
Salvini, Roberto. Tutta la pittura del Botticelli, 2 vols. Milan, 1958: 1:67, pl. 126.
1962
Salvini, Roberto. “Note sul Botticelli.” In Valentino Martinelli and Filippa M. Aliberti, eds. Scritti di Storia dell’arte in onore di Mario Salmi, 3 vols. Rome, 1961-1963: 2(1962): 300.
1963
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, 2 vols. London, 1963: 1:38, as by Botticelli.
1965
Salvini, Roberto. All the Paintings of Botticelli, 4 vols. New York, 1965: 2:75, pl. 126.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 17.
1966
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 123, fig. 337.
1967
Mandel, Gabriel. The Complete Paintings of Botticelli. Milan and New York, 1967: 85, cat. 2, repro., as by Botticelli "with extensive collaboration."
1968
Degenhart, Bernhard, and Annegrit Schmitt. Corpus der italienischen Zeichnungen 1300-1450, 1: Süd- und Mittelitalien. 4 vols. Berlin, 1968: 2, pt. 1:542.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 10, repro.
1971
Zeri, Federico, with Elizabeth Gardner. Italian Paintings. A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Florentine School. New York, 1971: 75, as by Botticelli.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 34, as by Botticelli.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 38, repro.
1976
Laclotte, Michel, and Elisabeth Mognetti. Avignon, Musée du Petit Palais: peinture italienne. 2nd ed. Paris, 1976: under no. 39, as by Botticelli.
1977
Bellosi, Luciano. Il Museo dello Spedale degli Innocenti a Firenze. Florence, 1977: 234, as by Botticelli.
1978
Lightbown, Ronald. Botticelli: Life and Work. 2 vols. Berkeley, CA, 1978: 2:11-12, cat. A2.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:84-85; 2:pl. 56, as Studio of Botticelli.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 57, repro.
1988
Kecks, Ronald G. Madonna und Kind. Das häusliche Andachtsbild im Florenz des 15. Jahrhunderts. Berlin, 1988: 42, 71, 122, fig. 131, as Follower of Filippo Lippi.
1989
Pons, Nicoletta. Botticelli: catalogo completo. Milan, 1989: 53, cat. 2
1990
Caneva, Caterina. Botticelli: catalogo completo dei dipinti. Florence, 1990: 141, cat. 2A, repro.
1992
Petrioli Tofani, Annamaria, ed. Il disegno fiorentino del tempo di Lorenzo il Magnifico. Exh. cat. Galleria degli Uffizi, Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, Florence, 1992: 144, as by Botticelli.
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: 146-151, color repro., as by Botticelli.
2005
Cecchi, Alessandro. Botticelli. Milan, 2005: 47, as Workshop of Filippo Lippi
2005
Zöllner, Frank. Botticelli. Munich, London, and New York, 2005: 184, 273, cat. 90, repro., as Unknown Artist.
2006
Fahy, Everett. "Early Italian paintings in Washington and Philadelphia." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1241 (August 2006): 539, as by Botticelli.
2009
Acidini, Cristina, William Dello Russo, and Federico Poletti. Botticelli nel suo tempo. Milan, 2009: 16, as by Botticelli.
2010
Dumbrowski, Damian. Die religiösen Gemälde Sandro Botticellis: Malerei als pia philosophia. Berlin and Munich, 2010: 41 n. 13.
2010
Filipponi, Stefano, Eleonora Mazzocchi, and Ludovica Sebregondi, eds. Il mercante, l'ospedale, i fanciulli. La donazione di Francesco Dataini, Santa Maria Nuova e la fondazione degli Innocenti. Exh. cat. Istituto degli Innocenti, Florence, 2010: 110.
2011
Sebregondi, Ludovica, and Tim Parks, eds. Money and Beauty: Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities. Exh. cat. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2011: 217.
2017
Spike, John T., and Alessandro Cecchi, eds. Botticelli and the Search for the Divine: Florentine Painting between the Medici and the Bonfires of the Vanities. Exh. cat. Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 2017: 93 n. 4, app. 7, fig. 3, as by Botticelli.
2021
Debenedetti, Ana, and Pierre Curie, eds. Botticelli, artiste & designer. Exh. cat. Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 2021: 81, as by Botticelli.
2021
Debenedetti, Ana. Botticelli: Artist and Designer. London, 2021: 96-97, fig. 32, as by Botticelli.
2022
Acidini, Cristina. Botticelli. Pisa, 2022: 30, 31, as by Botticelli.
2022
Daly, Christopher. “A new Florentine painter for the late Quattrocento: the Master of the Samaritan Woman (and a note on a forgotten tondo by Raffaellino del Garbo).” Colnaghi Studies Journal 11 (October 2022): 19 n. 9, as by Botticelli.

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