Inscription
upper center in Virgin's halo: AVE*GRATIA*PLENA*DO[MINUS TECUM] (Hail, full of grace, the Lord is with thee), from Luke 1:28
Provenance
Family chapel of a country house at Larniano, near San Gimignano,[1] by about 1900. Count Silvio Piccolomini Clementini della Triana [1878-1962], Siena, in the 1920s and early 1930s.[2] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence); sold June 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1939 to NGA.
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