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upper center in Virgin's halo: AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA DO[MINVS TECVM] (Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee; from Luke 1:28)

Provenance

Anonymous collection or dealer, Italy; acquired in the late 19th century by Edward Steinkopff [1837-1906], Lydhurst, Waringlid, Haywards Heath, Sussex;[1] by inheritance to his daughter, Mary Margaret Steinkopff Stewart-Mackenzie [later Baroness Seaforth, d. 1933], Brahan Castle, Highland, Scotland. family of the barons of Castelmuro, by 1935;[2] (Robert Frank, Ltd., London);[3] (Rudolf Heinemann [Pinakos, Inc], Lugano) half share with (M. Knoedler & Co., New York and London); purchased 30 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[4] gift 1937 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1935
Museo Navale, Milan, 1935.

Bibliography

1937
Cortissoz, Royal. An Introduction to the Mellon Collection. Boston, 1937: repro. 2.
1937
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "New Items in the Mellon Collection." Art News 35 (13 February, 1937): 10-11.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 5, no. 5.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 239, repro. 57.
1944
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 22, color repro.
1945
Grassi, Luigi. “Museo Nazionale di Washington.” Arti figurative 1, nos. 1-2 (1945): 233.
1949
Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 15, repro.
1951
Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 33, repro. 31.
1951
Meiss, Millard. Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death. Princeton, 1951: 140 n. 32.
1952
Pope-Hennessy, John. Fra Angelico. London, 1952: 205, as Close to Zanobi Strozzi.
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): 184, 192 n. 35.
1958
Salmi, Mario. Il Beato Angelico. Spoleto, 1958: 17, 102, pl. 22b.
1963
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Florentine School. 2 vols. London, 1963: 1:15.
1964
Orlandi, Stefano. Beato Angelico. Florence, 1964: 38, as Attributed to Fra Angelico.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 8.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 1, repro.
1970
Baldini, Umberto. L’opera completa dell’Angelico. Milan, 1970: 89, cat. 15, repro.
1970
Huter, Carl. "Gentile da Fabriano and the Madonna of Humility." Arte veneta 24 (1970): 34 n. 6, as Attributed to Fra Angelico.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 9, 645.
1974
Pope-Hennessy, John. Fra Angelico. Ithaca, NY, 1974: 233, fig. 107, as by Zanobi Strozzi.
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: 562-564, cat. 107, repro., as tentatively by a follower of imitator of Fra Angelico.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:13-14; 2:pl. 8, as Attributed to Fra Angelico.
1982
Christiansen, Keith. Gentile da Fabriano. London, 1982: 38, 99, fig. 38, as Attributed to Fra Angelico.
1984
Alce, Venturino. “Cataloghi e indici delle opere del Beato Angelico.” In Beato Angelico. Miscellanea di Studi. Rome, 1984: 354.
1984
Fallani, Giovanni. Vita e opere di Fra Giovanni Angelico. Florence, 1984: 174.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 86, no. 41, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 19, repro.
1990
Boskovits, Miklós, and Serena Padovani. Early Italian Painting 1290-1470. The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection. London, 1990: 26, 27.
1991
Cadogan, Jean. Wadsworth Atheneum Paintings Catalogue. II. Italy and Spain: Fourteenth through Nineteenth Centuries. Hartford, CT, 1991: 44.
1992
De Marchi, Andrea. Gentile da Fabriano: Un viaggio nella pittura italiana alla fine del gotico. Milan, 1992: 191 n. 96, as Attributed to Fra Angelico.
1993
Alce, Venturino. Angelicus pictor. Vita, opere e teologia del Beato Angelico. Bologna, 1993: 375.
1996
Spike, John T. Fra Angelico. New York, London, and Paris 1996: 265, cat. 142, repro., as Attributed to Fra Angelico.
1998
Bonsanti, Giorgio. Beato Angelico. Catalogo completo. Florence, 1998: 134, cat. 47.
2001
Kanter, Laurence. “An Annunciation by Fra Angelico.” In Clay Dean, ed. Rediscovering Fra Angelico: A Fragmentary History. Exh. cat. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 2001: 34, fig. 14..
2003
Boskovits, Miklós, David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2003: 9-13, color repro.
2005
Kanter, Laurence, and Pia Palladino. Fra Angelico. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2005: 161, 164, fig. 90.
2006
Fahy, Everett. "Early Italian paintings in Washington and Philadelphia." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1241 (August 2006): 538.

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