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
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- 1945
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- 1946
- Douglas, Robert Langton. "Recent Additions to the Kress Collection." The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 88 (1946): 81, 82.
- 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
- Pope-Hennessy, John. Fra Angelico. London, 1952: 13, 15, 174-175, fig. 9.
- 1955
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- 1955
- Collobi Ragghianti, Licia. “Una mostra di Angelico.” Critica d’Arte 10 (July 1955): 392.
- 1955
- Salmi, Mario, et al, eds. Mostra delle opere di Fra Angelico. Exh. cat. Palazzo Apostolico Vaticano, Vatican City, 1955: 65-68.
- 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
- Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 52, repro.
- 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
- De Marchi, Andrea. “Beato Angelico.” In Luciano Bellosi, ed. Pittura di luce. Giovanni di Francesco e l’arte fiorentina di metà Quattrocento. Exh. cat. Casa Buonarroti, Florence, 1990: 86.
- 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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