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Provenance

High altar of the church of San Marco, Florence, from about 1440 until about 1677.[1] Possibly in the passageway to the sacristy of the same church, by 1758,[2] or in the Spezieria of the Convent of San Marco (recorded here in the early 19th century).[3] possibly in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence, after 1810-1812, and from here (if not directly from the Spezieria) in private hands.[4] James-Alexander, comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier [1776-1855], Paris, by 1841; (his sale, Hôtel Pourtalès-Gorgier, Paris, 27 March-4 April 1865, no. 86, as by Masaccio); probably Edmond [1822-1896] and Jules Huot [1830-1870] de Goncourt, Paris.[5] (Julius Böhler, Munich).[6] Albert Keller [1879-1939], New York, by 1924; (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York); sold 1944 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[7] gift 1952 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1930
Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1930 (listed in news article as among paintings sent to the exhibition, but not in catalogue).
1941
Educational Loan Exhibition, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Washington, D.C., 1941, no. 10.
1946
Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. 790.
2005
Fra Angelico, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2005-2006, no. 34G, repro.
2018
Florence and its Painters: From Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci, Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Munich, 2018-2019.

Bibliography

1841
Dubois, Léon-Jean-Joseph. Description des tableaux faisant partie des collections de M. le Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier. Paris, 1841: 3, no. 3.
1923
Marle, Raimond van. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. 19 vols. The Hague, 1923-1938: 10(1928):96.
1924
Schottmüller, Frida. Fra Angelico da Fiesole, 2nd ed. Stuttgart, 1924: 145 repro., 263-264, 272, 276.
1926
Comstock, Helen. “Paintings in the Keller Collection.” International Studio85 (September 1926): 14, 16, 19-20.
1926
Wingenroth, Max. Angelico da Fiesole. 2nd ed. Ed. Frida Schottmüller. Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1926: 56.
1927
Venturi, Adolfo. Studi dal vero: Attraverso le raccolta artistiche di Europea. Milan, 1927: 12-14, 15, fig. 2.
1929
“American Loans to Italian Show in London.” Art News 28 (29 December 1929): 4.
1929
Muratoff, Paul. Fra Angelico. London and New York, 1929: 43-44.
1929
Singleton, Esther. Old World Masters in New World Collections. New York, 1929: 39, repro.
1931
Bodkin, Thomas. “A Fra Angelico Predella.” The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 58 (1931): 184, 188, 192-194, pl. III-d.
1932
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Oxford, 1932: 22.
1933
Venturi, Lionello. Italian Paintings in America, 3 vols. New York and Milan, 1938:2: pl.181.
1936
Berenson, Bernard. Pitture italiane del rinascimento. Milan, 1936: 19.
1940
Paatz, Walter, and Elisabeth Paatz. Die Kirchen von Florenz: ein kunstgeschichtliches Handbuch. 6 vols. Frankfurt am Main, 1940-1954: 3(1952):44.
1945
Douglas, Robert Langton. “The Reconstruction of Dismembered Altarpieces. How Far Is It Possible?” Art Quarterly 8, no. 4 (1945): 290-292, 294 n. 17, 295, fig. 4.
1945
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1946
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1946
Frankfurter, Alfred M. Supplement to the Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1946: 22, color repro.
1950
Collobi Ragghianti, Licia. “Zanobi Strozzi pittore – I.” Critica d’arte 23 (1950): 468 n. 18.
1952
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 16, color repro.
1952
Kaftal, George. Saints in Italian Art. Vol. 1 (of 4), Iconography of the Saints in Tuscan Painting. Florence, 1952: 291-292, repro.
1952
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1955
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1955
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1955
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1955
Salmi, Mario. “Review of John Pope-Hennessy, Fra Angelico.” Commentari 6 (1955): 147.
1956
Baldini, Umberto. “Contributi all’Angelico: La predella della Pala di San Marco e l’Armadio degli Argenti della SS. Annunziata.” Commentari 7 (April-June 1956): 78, 82-83.
1956
National Gallery of Irleand. Catalogue of Pictures of the Italian School. Dublin, 1956: 10.
1957
Gómez-Moreno, Carmen. “A Reconstructed Panel by Fra Angelico and Some New Evidence for the Chronology of His Work.” The Art Bulletin 39, no. 3 (September 1957): 190 n. 26, 191 n. 28.
1958
David-Danel, Marie-Louise. Iconographie des saints Médecins Côme et Damien. Lille, 1958: 88-95, 178, 185.
1958
Salmi, Mario. Il Beato Angelico. Spoleto, 1958: 113, fig. 68b.
1959
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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: 28, repro., color repro. pl. 24.
1963
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Florentine School. 2 vols. London, 1963: 1:16.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 298, repro.
1964
Orlandi, Stefano. Beato Angelico. Florence, 1964: 74 n. 1.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 8.
1966
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:22, color repro.
1966
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XIII-XV Century. London, 1966: 94-95, fig. 258, 262.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 2, repro.
1970
Baldini, Umberto. L’opera completa dell’Angelico. Milan, 1970: 102, cat. 60b, pl. 33.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA., 1972: 9, 646.
1974
Pope-Hennessy, John. Fra Angelico. 2nd ed. London and New York, 1974: 26, 200, 201, fig. 36.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 12, repro.
1977
Cole, Diane Elyse. "Fra Angelico: His Role in Quattrocento Painting and Problems of Chronology." Ph.D. diss., University of Virginia, 1977: 269-271.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:8-10; 2:pl. 6, 7A.
1981
Ahl, Diane Col. "Fra Angelico: A New Chronology for the 1430s." Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 44 (1981): 157.
1981
Brejon de Lavergnée, Arnauld, and Dominique Thiébaut. Catalogue sommaire illustré des peintures du Musée du Louvre. 2, Italie, Espagne, Allemande, Grande-Bretagne et divers. Paris, 1981: 144.
1981
Hertz, Anselm. Fra Angelico. Freiburg, Basel, and Vienna, 1981: 136.
1983
Castelfranchi Vegas, Liana. Italia e Fiandra nella pittura del Quattrocento. Milan, 1983: 93, 106 n. 29.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 87, no. 44, color repro.
1985
De Marchi, Andrea. “Per la cronologia dell’Angelico: Il trittico di Perugia.” Prospettiva 42 (July 1985): 53.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 19, repro.
1986
Baldini, Umberto. Beato Angelico. Florence, 1986: 163-164, 248.
1990
Bellosi, Luciano, ed. Pittura di luce. Giovanni di Francesco e l’arte fiorentina di metà Quattrocento. Exh. cat. Casa Buonarroti, Florence, 1990: 86.1990: 90-93.
1990
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1990
Improta, Cristina. “La pittura su tavola dell’Angelico e del Quattrocento.” In La Chiesa e il Convento di San Marco a Firenze. 2 vols. Florence, 1989-1990: 2(1990):107.
1993
Alce, Venturino. Angelicus pictor. Vita, opere e teologia del Beato Angelico. Bologna, 1993: 173.
1993
Gagliardi, Jacques. La conquête de la peinture: L’Europe des ateliers du XIIIe au XVe siècle. Paris, 1993: 355.
1993
Hood, William. Fra Angelico at San Marco. New Haven and London, 1993: 100, 112, fig. 100.
1996
Spike, John T. Fra Angelico. New York, London, and Paris 1996: 226-228, cat. 71B.
1996
Syre, Cornelia, and Veronika Poll-Frommel. Fra Angelico: die Münchner Tafeln und der Hochaltar von San Marco in Florenz. Munich, 1996: 23-26, 37 n. 23, fig. 14.
1997
Southgate, M. Therese. The Art of JAMA: One Hundred Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association. St. Louis, 1997: 196-197, 215, color repro.
1998
Bartz, Gabriele. Guido Di Piero, known as Fra Angelico, ca. 1395-1455. Konemann, 1998: repro. no. 48.
1998
Bonsanti, Giorgio. Beato Angelico. Catalogo completo. Florence, 1998: 142-144, cat. 66.
2000
Cornini, Guido. “Beato Angelico.” Art et Dossier 155 (April 2000): 35.
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: 13-20, color repro.
2008
Ahl, Diane Cole. Fra Angelico. London, 2008: 123, fig. 86.
2008
Russo, Giuseppe. “Tavole con ipotesi di ricostruzione.” In Cristina Acidini and Magnolia Scudieri, eds. L'Angelico ritrovato: Studi e ricerche per la Pala di San Marco. Milan, 2008: 135-141, repro.
2008
Scudieri, Magnolia, and Sara Giacomelli. “Alla ricerca della Pala perduta: ipotesi e…fantasie ricostruttive.” In Cristina Acidini and Magnolia Scudieri, eds. L'Angelico ritrovato: Studi e ricerche per la Pala di San Marco. Milan, 2008: 132, figs. 155-157, 164.
2008
Scudieri, Magnolia. "La Pala di San Marco: apogeo della committenza medicea e manifesto della tradizione domenicana." In Cristina Acidini and Magnolia Scudieri, eds. L'Angelico ritrovato: Studi e ricerche per la Pala di San Marco. Milan, 2008: 44-45, 54, figs. 44, 61.
2013
"Vasari and the National Gallery of Art." National Gallery of Art Bulletin 48 (Spring 2013): 11, repro.
2014
Andrews, Lew. "Fra Angelico and narrative time, mostly predella panels." Arte Cristiana 102, no. 880 (2014): 26, fig. 5.
2016
Bacchi, Andrea, and Andrea De Marchi, eds. La Galleria di Palazzo Cini. Dipinti, sculture, oggetti d'arte. Venice, 2016: 136, repro.
2017
Schumacher, Andreas, ed. Florentiner Malerei. Alte Pinakothek: Die Gemälde des 14. bis 16. Jahrhunderts. Munich, 2017: 255, 258, fig. 13.9.
2018
Villa, Renzo. Beato Angelico. Pisa, 2018: 168-169, repro.
2021
Gardner von Teuffel, Christa. “The First Florentine Tavola Quadra? Fra Angelico’s High Altar-piece in San Marco.” In Cecilia Frosinini, ed. La Pala di San Marco di Beato Angelico: restauro e ricerche. Problemi di conservazione e restauro. Ospedaletto, Pisa, 2021: 52, fig. 5.
2021
Strehlke, Carl Brandon. "Fra Angelico: Domenican Painter or Medici Painter?" In Cecilia Frosinini, ed. La Pala di San Marco di Beato Angelico: restauro e ricerche. Problemi di conservazione e restauro. Ospedaletto, Pisa, 2021: 22-23.
2022
Nethersole, Scott. "Fra Angelico's The Miracle of the Black Leg: Skin Colour and the Perception of Ethiopians in Florence before 1450." Art History 45, no. 2 (April 2022): 266.

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