Art market, Paris, before 1924. [1]

Galleria Sangiorgi, Rome, before 1931. [2]

[Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878–1955), Florence, by 1931]; [3]

Sold to Samuel H. Kress (1863–1955), New York, June 12, 1935; [4]

Gift to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., June 29, 1939;

Returned to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, October 15, 1952;

Gift to the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, December 9, 1961;

Administrative transfer to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1972. 

[1] Van Marle 1924, p. 554 mentions “[a panel] of the Madonna from the hand of Taddeo which bear[s] a close resemblance to the Virgin of [San Francesco] … I saw [it] some years ago in an art-dealer’s shop in Paris, it was the finest and most spiritual of this little group of Madonnas.” Van Marle 1931, p. 171 reproduces the painting on plate 8 and identifies it again as “una, che fu già da mericordata come esistente nel mercato antiquario parigino, l'ho di recente veduta altrove e ne posso dare con piacere la riproduzion.”

[2] Inscription on verso of photo of a painting in the Contini-Volterra photographic archive, later reproduced in Van Marle 1931, reads: “Già a Roma, Gall. Sangiorgi. / Taddeo di Bartolo.”. Madonna con Bambino, 1900–1931, photographic print, 9 in x 5.9 in., Archivio fotografico, Fondazione Federico Zeri, 85.4, inventory number 22794.

[3] Madonna and Child, A painting of the Madonna and child, 1930–1958, photographic print, 5.8 x 3.3 in., Contini-Volterra Photographic Archive, Vanderbilt Special Collections, SC.MSS.088.STUD.0767.2. Photo also appears in Van Merle 1931, plate 8 and is identified as being in a private collection.

[4] Bill of sale, Samuel H. Kress Foundation Archive.