Pisa, between 1833 and 1843. [1]

Private collection, Scotland, before 1946. [2]

Sale, Sotheby’s, London, December 18, 1946, lot 86; [3]

Purchased by Gualtiero Volterra (1901–1967) on behalf of Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi (1878–1955), Florence, 1946; [4]

Sold to Samuel H. Kress (1863–1955), New York, July 11, 1948; [5]

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] A portion of the painting appears in a drawing by Johann Anton Ramboux after Giovanni dal Ponte (attr. to Spinello Aretino), Mary with the Christchild, after a tempera painting in Pisa,  375 mm x 512 mm which is included in an album of his travel drawings at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany, Bib. 2472 VI 3A. From a draft of an unpublished catalog entry written by Eunice D. Howe, curatorial file, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the drawing is dated to Anton Ramboux’s second trip to Italy, between 1833 and 1843.

[2] Entry in a list of attributions made and signed by Bernard Berenson, May 15, 1948, Samuel H. Kress Foundation Archive.

[3] Sotheby’s London 1946, p. 8 reproduces the painting and lists it as “The Property of a Gentleman.”

[4] A draft of an unpublished catalog entry written by Eunice D. Howe, curatorial file, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco identifies the painting as being purchased by Volterra. Zaninelli 2018, p. 108 confirms it was purchased on behalf of Contini Bonacossi and mistakenly lists the year of purchase as 1948.

[5] Bill of sale, Samuel H. Kress Foundation Archive. Dwyer Modestini, Dianne, Masterpieces: Based on a Manuscript by Mario Modestini, (Fiesole: Cadmo, 2018), p. 270–271 says that Contini Bonacossi prepared a group of paintings for Kress that were purchased in London and Paris and shipped to New York.

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