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Provenance

Commissioned by Floriano Griffoni for a family chapel (the sixth off the north aisle) in the church of San Petronio, Bologna;[1] moved to the Casa Aldrovandi, Bologna, c. 1731, but no longer there in 1782.[2] Count Ugo Beni, Gubbio, by 1858;[3] purchased 1881 or at (Beni sale, Gubbio, April 1882, no. 4, as Saint Martin by Zoppo) by Joseph Spiridon [1845-1930], Paris;[4] (his sale, Cassirer and Helbing, Berlin, 31 May 1929, no. 12, as Heilige Liberalis); (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[5] sold May 1936 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[6] gift 1939 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1932
Exhibition of Italian Renaissance Art, Wadsworth Atheneum and Morgan Memorial, Hartford, 1932, no. 17.
1933
Italian Paintings of the XIV to XVI Century, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1933, no. 78.
1935
Exposition de l'Art Italien de Cimabue à Tiepolo, Petit Palais, Paris, 1935, no. 122.

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1872
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1901
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1906
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1907
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1929
Dussler, L. "Die Italienishen Bilder der Sammlung Spiridon." Pantheon III (April 1929):160, repro.
1929
Fischel, Oskar. Die Sammlung Joseph Spiridon. Paris, 1929:no. 13, repro.
1929
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1934
Longhi, Roberto. Officina Ferrarese. Rome, 1934: 50, repro.
1935
"La Mostra dell'antica arte Italiana a Parigi." Bollettino d'Arte XXIX, series III (1935):42.
1941
Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 66, repro.
1941
Ortolani, Sergio. Cosmé Tura, Francesco del Cossa, Ercole de'Roberti. Milan, 1941:131, repro.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 46, no. 339.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 246, repro. 88.
1944
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 32, repro.
1945
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1950
Nicolson, Benedict. The Painters of Ferrara. London, 1950:13, repro.
1956
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1958
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1959
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1959
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1961
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1963
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1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 32.
1966
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 83-84, fig. 223.
1968
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1968
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1972
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1974
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1974
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1975
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1979
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1984
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1985
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1985
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1992
Santucci, Paola. La Pittura del Quattrocento. Torino, 1992:206, repro.
1993
Gagliardi, Jacques. La conquête de la peinture: L’Europe des ateliers du XIIIe au XVe siècle. Paris, 1993: 493-494, fig. 600.
1997
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1998
Strumwasser, Gina. "Betrayal." In Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art. Edited by Helene E. Roberts. 2 vols. Chicago, 1998: 1:134
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: 215-222, color repro.
2003
Sgarbi, Vittorio. Francesco del Cossa. Milan, 2003: 136-139, repro., 230, cat. 21.
2007
Riese, Brigitte. "Lucia." In Seeman's Lexikon der Ikonographie: Religiöse und profane Bildmotive. Leipzig, 207: 271, repro.
2013
"Vasari and the National Gallery of Art." National Gallery of Art Bulletin 48 (Spring 2013): 13, repro.
2016
Bacchi, Andrea, and Andrea De Marchi, eds. La Galleria di Palazzo Cini. Dipinti, sculture, oggetti d'arte. Venice, 2016: 179, 182 repro.
2016
Paolucci, Antonio, et al, eds. Piero della Francesca: Indagine su un mito. Exh. cat. Museo San Domenico, Forlì, 2016: 142.
2017
Serres, Karen. "Duveen's Italian framemaker, Ferruccio Vannoni." The Burlington Magazine 159, no. 1370 (May 2017): 372 n. 38.
2023
Ahl, Diane Cole. Painting in Fifteenth-Century Italy: "This Splendid and Noble Art". New Haven and London, 2023: 101, 103, fig. 3.21.

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