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Provenance

Possibly the Medici family, Florence, by 1492.[1] (Stefano Bardini [1836-1922], Florence). (Professor Luigi Grassi [1858-1937], Florence); purchased January 1923 by (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York).[2] Henry Goldman [1857-1937], New York, by 1924.[3] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold March 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[4] gift 1939 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1924
Loan Exhibition of Important Early Italian Paintings in the Possession of Notable American Collectors, Duveen Brothers, New York, 1924, no. 23, as The Deposition by Fra Angelico (no. 4 in illustrated 1926 version of catalogue).
2018
Fra Angelico: Heaven on Earth, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 2018.

Bibliography

1923
Marle, Raimond van. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. 19 vols. The Hague, 1923-1938: 10(1928):143.
1924
Offner, Richard. “A Remarkable Exhibition of Italian Paintings.” The Arts 5, no. 5 (May 1924): 245.
1924
Schottmüller, Frida. Fra Angelico da Fiesole, 2nd ed. Stuttgart, 1924: 180, 266, repro.
1926
Lloyd, David. “Changing Tastes in Picture Collecting.” International Studio 83 (1926): 54.
1931
Venturi, Lionello. Pitture italiane in America. Milan, 1931: pl. 152.
1932
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932: 22.
1933
Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America, 3 vols. New York, 1933: 2:pl.182.
1936
Berenson, Bernard. Pitture italiane del Rinascimento. Milan, 1936: 19.
1941
Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 40, repro.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 6, no. 371.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 247, repro. 56, as by Fra Angelico.
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): 31, repro.
1949
Ragghianti, Carlo L. “La Collezione S. H. Kress nella National Gallery of Art.” Critica d’Arte 8, no. 1 (May 1949): 81-82, as by Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi.
1951
Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 33.
1952
Pope-Hennessy, John. Fra Angelico. London, 1952: 204.
1955
Collobi Ragghianti, Licia. “Studi angelichiani.” Critica d’arte 7 (January 1955): 47 n. 8, as by Fra Angelico and Filippo Lippi.
1958
Salmi, Mario. Il Beato Angelico. Spoleto, 1958: 88, 122-123, fig. 114a.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 51, repro., as by Fra Angelico.
1963
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, 2 vols. London, 1963: 1:16.
1964
Orlandi, Stefano. Beato Angelico. Florence, 1964: 124-125.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 8.
1966
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 97-98, fig. 257.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 2, repro.
1970
Baldini, Umberto. L’opera completa dell’Angelico. Milan, 1970: 109, 117, cat. 112, repro.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: xxi, 9, 221, 645, as by Fra Angelico or an Anonymous 15th-century Florentine.
1973
Finley, David Edward. A Standard of Excellence: Andrew W. Mellon Founds the National Gallery of Art at Washington. Washington, 1973: 79.
1974
Fahy, Everett. “Review. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XII-XV Century by Fern Rusk Shapley; Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XV-XVI Century by Fern Rusk Shapley; Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery by Charles Seymour; Italian Primitives: The Case History of a Collection and its Conservation by Charles Seymour.” Art Bulletin, vol. 56, no. 2 (1974): 285, as by Jacopo del Sellaio.
1974
Pope-Hennessy, John. Fra Angelico. 2nd ed. London and New York, 1974: 233-234, fig. 109, as by Jacopo del Sellaio.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 14, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:425-427; 2:pl. 305, as Attributed to Jacopo del Sellaio.
1980
Ragghianti, Carlo L. “Galleria di Washington.” Critica d’Arte 45, nos. 154-156 (1980): 217, as by Fra Angelico and Fra Filippo Lippi.
1983
Rowlands, Eliot W. “Filippo Lippi’s Stay in Padua and Its Impact on His Art.” Ph.D. diss., Rutgers University, 1983: 151 n. 96.
1984
Alce, Venturino. “Cataloghi e indici delle opere del Beato Angelico.” In Beato Angelico. Miscellanea di Studi. Rome, 1984: 358, as by Fra Angelico.
1984
Scalia, Fiorenza and Cristina De Benedictis, eds. Il Museo Bardini a Firenze, 2 vols. Milan, 1984-1986: 1(1984): 125, fig. lxxxiv, as by Fra Angelico and collaborators.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 86, no. 42, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 20, repro.
1986
Baldini, Umberto. Beato Angelico. Florence, 1986: 273, as Close to Jacopo del Sellaio.
1986
Simpson, Colin. Artful Partners: Bernard Berenson and Joseph Duveen. New York, 1986: 239.
1992
Pons, Nicoletta. “Una bottega fiorentina di pittura nella seconda metà del XV secolo: Jacopo del Sellaio e compagni.” Ph.D. diss. Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza,” 1992: 38-39, 338-339, cat. 91, fig. 10 as begun by Fra Angelico then transferred to Filippo Lippi's workshop where completed by Jacopo del Sellaio.
1993
Alce, Venturino. Angelicus pictor. Vita, opere e teologia del Beato Angelico. Bologna, 1993: 381, as by Fra Angelico.
1998
Strehlke, Carl Brandon. Angelico. Milan, 1998: 68 n. 11, as by Jacopo del Sellaio.
2000
Fahy, Everett. Dipinti, disegni, miniature, stampe: L'Archivio storico fotografico di Stefano Bardini. Florence, 2000: 42, cat. 326, as by Jacopo del Sellaio.
2000
Nagel, Alexander. Michelangelo and the Reform of Art. New York, 2000: 71-72, fig. 39, as School of Fra Angelico.
2002
Boskovits, Miklós. “La bottega del Beato Angelico tra Firenze e Roma, e la formazione di Benozzo Gozzoli.” In Bruno Toscano and Giovanna Capitelli, eds. Benozzo Gozzoli allievo a Roma, maestro in Umbria. Exh. cat. Chiesa-Museo di San Francesco, Montefalco, 2002: 140.
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: 31-35, color repro.
2005
Kanter, Laurence, and Pia Palladino. Fra Angelico. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2005: 146 n. 6.
2006
Fahy, Everett. "Early Italian paintings in Washington and Philadelphia." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1241 (August 2006): 538 n. 5.
2009
De Simone, Gerardo. “Velut alter Apelles. Il decennio romano del Beato Angelico.” In Alessandro Zuccari, Giovanni Morelli and Gerardo de Simone, eds. Beato Angelico. L’alba del Rinascimento. Exh. cat. Musei Capitolini, Rome. 2009: 133-134.
2014
Flanigan, Theresa. "Art, Memory and the Cultivation of Virtue: The Ethical Function of Images in Antonius's Opera a ben vivere." Gesta 53, no. 2 (Fall 2014): 191-192, fig. 6.
2014
Hoff, Michael. Andacht und Identität: Zur Darstellung Christi in der Malerei der Florentiner Frührenaissance. Marburg, 2014: 162 n. 347, as by Jacopo del Sellaio (?).
2015
Verdon, Timothy. Beato Angelico. Milan, 2015: 295, fig. 195, as by Fra Angelico.
2017
De Simone, Gerardo. Il Beato Angelico a Roma 1445-1455. Rinascita delle arti e Umanesimo cristiano nell'Urbe di Niccolo V e Leon Battista Alberti. Florence, 2017: 127-128, 134-135, fig. 76, as by Fra Angelico and Jacopo del Sellaio.
2018
Kanter, Laurence. "Review. Fra Angelico: Boston." The Burlington Magazine 160, no. 1382 (May 2018): 410, as Probably by Jacopo del Sellaio.
2020
Civettini, Davide. "La 'primavera' di Jacopo del Sellaio." M.A. thesis, Università degli Studi di Firenze, 2020: 58, fig. 33, as Circle of Fra Angelico.

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