Inscription
on the Virgin's prayerbook: virgo / [c]oncipiet / [e]t p[a]ri[et] / fili[um et vocabitur nomen eius] em[m]anuel / butirum et / mel come / dit u[t] fiat / [rep]roba[re] (Propter hoc dabit Dominus ipse vobis signum. Ecce virgo concipiet, et pariet filium, et vocabitur nomen eius Emmanuel. Butyrum et mel comedet, ut sciat reprobare malum, et eligere bonum; from Isaiah 7:14-15)
Provenance
Painted to serve as the altarpiece of the Guardini chapel on the left side of the rood screen in the church of San Niccolò Oltrarno, Florence, and probably in place by 1426;[1] transferred by c. 1567 (the date of the demolition of the rood screen) to the altar of the other chapel of the Guardini family in the same church; moved 1576 to the Sacristy (and replaced by the Annunciation altarpiece newly painted by Alessandro Fei);[2] in a room annexed to the sacristy, probably until the end of the eighteenth century.[3] possibly Francis Weymss-Charteris-Douglas, 9th earl of Wemyss [1796-1883], Gosford House, Longniddry, Scotland;[4] by inheritance to his son, Francis Richard Charteris, 10th earl of Wemyss [1818-1914], Gosford House, by 1886;[5] by inheritance to his son, Hugo Richard Charteris, 11th earl of Wemyss, [1857-1937], Gosford House; sold c. 1915 to (Robert Langton Douglas, London);[6] sold to Henry Goldman [1857-1937], New York, by 1916;[7] (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[8] purchased 26 April 1937 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[9] gift 1937 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1886
- Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters. Winter Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1886, no. 185, as by Anonymous, Italian School.
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- 1955
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- 1961
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- 1962
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- 1964
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- 1965
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- 1965
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- 1966
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- 1966
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- 1968
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- 1968
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- 1972
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- 1973
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- 1976
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- 1985
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- 1987
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- 1988
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- 1988
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- 2010
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- 2022
- Badino, Grazia. “Firenze, 7 gennaio 1422: Masaccio, ‘pictor populi Sancti Nicholai’.” In Angelo Tartuferi, Lucia Bencistà, and Nicoletta Matteuzzi, eds. Masaccio e i maestri del Rinascimento a confronto. Per celebrare 600 anni del Trittico di San Giovenale. Exh. cat., Museo Masaccio d’Arte Sacra, Reggello (Florence), 2022: 82-83, 88 n. 13.
- 2024
- De Luca, Silvia, Andrea De Marchi and Francesco Suppa, eds. Empoli 1424: Masolino e gli albori del rinascimento. Exh. cat. Museo della Collegiata di Sant'Andrea and Chiesa di Santo Stefano degli Agostiniani, Empoli, 2024: 144.
- 2024
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