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Provenance

William Graham [1817-1885], London; (his estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 2-3 and 8-10 April 1886, 5th day, no. 417); (Colnaghi, London and New York); Robert Henry [1850-1929] and Evelyn Holford [1856-1943] Benson, London and Buckhurst Park, Sussex; sold 1927 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[1] sold 1942 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1943 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1894
School of Ferrara-Bologna, Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1894, no. 54, pl. XVII.
1896
Works of Old Masters, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1896, no. 110.
1909
National Loan Exhibition, Grafton Galleries, London, 1909-1910, no. 87, repro.
1927
Loan Exhibition of the Benson Collection of Old Italian Masters, City of Manchester Art Gallery, 1927, no. 22.
1930
Exhibition of Italian Art 1200-1900, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1930, no. 407 (no. 337 of commemorative catalogue published 1931; not in souvenir catalogue).
1932
Exhibition of Italian Renaissance Art, Wadsworth Atheneum and Morgan Memorial, Hartford, 1932, no. 19.
1933
Esposizione della Pittura Ferrarese del Rinascimento, Ferrara, May-October 1933, no. 184, repro.
1933
Italian Paintings from the XIV to the XVI Century, Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, March 1933, no. 83.
1939
Classics of the Nude, Knoedler Galleries, New York, 1939, no. 7, as Circe.
1939
Masterpieces of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300-1800, New York World's Fair, 1939, no. 82.
1946
Recent Additions to the Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1946, no. 716.
1998
Dosso Dossi: Court Painter in Renaissance Ferrara, Exhibit Halls, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 1998-1999, no. 3, repro.
2011
Heroínas [Heroines], Fundación Caja Madrid, 2011, no. 62, repro.

Bibliography

1914
Borenius, Tancred. Catalogue of Italian Pictures at 16 South Street, Park Lane, London and Buckhurst in Sussex Collected by Robert and Evelyn Benson. London, 1914: no. 60.
1944
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds. Masterpieces of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1944: 72, color repro.
1944
Frankfurter, Alfred M. The Kress Collection in the National Gallery. New York, 1944: 49, repro.
1945
Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1945 (reprinted 1947, 1949): 103, repro.
1951
Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 94-97, repro.
1956
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1956: 28, repro.
1957
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Comparisons in Art: A Companion to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. London, 1957 (reprinted 1959): pl. 44.
1959
Paintings and Sculpture from the Samuel H. Kress Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1959: 168, repro.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 140, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 43.
1966
Cairns, Huntington, and John Walker, eds, A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:164, color repro.
1968
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools. 3 vols. London, 1968: 1:114.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 36, repro.
1968
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools, XV-XVI Century. London, 1968: 73, fig. 176.
1974
Shapiro, Maurice L. "The Widener Orpheus." Studies in the History of Art vol. 6 (1974):24-25, repro. p. 28.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 110, repro.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1979: 1:167-168; 2:pl. 116.
1979
Watson, Ross. The National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1979: 45, pl. 28.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 192, no. 222, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 134, repro.
1988
Sebag-Montefiore, Charles. "Three Lost Collections of London." National Art Collections Fund Magazine 38 (Christmas 1988): 54.
1997
Bronstein, Léo. Kabbalah and Art, New Brunswick and London, 1997, no. 3, repro.
2003
Gregori, Mina, ed. In the Light of Apollo: Italian Renaissance and Greece. 2 vols. Exh. cat. National Gallery and Alexandros Souzos Museum, Athens, 2003-2004: 1:375.
2004
Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 88-88, no. 63, color repro.
2011
Boskovits, Miklós, ed. The Alana Collection, Newark, Delaware, USA. Vol. II: Italian Paintings and Sculptures from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century. Florence, 2011: 110.

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