Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint Bernardino of Siena

Provenance

Possibly Gattamelata chapel, Basilica del Santo, Padua.[1] private collection, The Netherlands;[2] (sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 April 1981, no. 124, as by C. Crivelli). (Piero Corsini, New York);[3] private collection, New York, by 1984;[4] (P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London and New York); sold 1989 to private collection;[5] gift (partial and promised) 1990 to NGA;gift completed 2018. [1] This was the first chapel to the right entering the church, dismantled in 1651 when it was transformed into the chapel of the Sacrament (see Marcantonio Michiel, _Notizia d'opere di disegno_, 2nd rev. ed., ed. Gustavo Frizzoni, Bologna, 1884: 7-8). This earlier provenance is hypothetical; for a complete discussion see the NGA systematic catalogue entry by Miklòs Boskovits in Boskovits, Miklós, and David Alan Brown, et al., _Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art_, Washington, D.C., 2003: 89-94. [2] See Peter Humfrey, _Gothic to Renaissance. European Painting 1300-1600_, exh. cat., Colnaghi, London and New York, 1988: 26. [3] See Colin Eisler, "'Saints Anthony Abbot and Bernardino of Siena' Designed by Jacopo and Painted by Gentile Bellini," _Arte Veneta_ XXXIX (1985): 40, n. 6. [4] According to a letter of 22 June 1984 from the collector to Miklòs Boskovits (copy in NGA curatorial files). [5] Nicholas H.J. Hall, ed., _Colnaghi in America: A Survey to Commemorate the First Decade of Colnaghi in New York_, New York, 1992: 37.

Saint Anthony Abbot and Saint Bernardino of Siena

Bellini, Jacopo

1459

Accession Number

1990.118.1

Medium

tempera on poplar panel

Dimensions

overall: 110 x 57 cm (43 5/16 x 22 7/16 in.) | framed: 127 x 74 x 9.8 cm (50 x 29 1/8 x 3 7/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Anonymous Donor, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art