Saint Apollonia Destroys a Pagan Idol

Provenance

(Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Rome), by July 1926;[1] purchased April 1927 by Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955], New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA. [1] The expertise for this painting is dated 16 July 1926, issued by Georg Gronau (copy in NGA curatorial files) in all probability at the request of Count Contini Bonacossi, who began to sell painting to Samuel H. Kress around that time; see _Dizionario biografico degli italiani_, Rome, 1983: 28:524. [2] The bill of sale for eight paintings, including "A panel representing Scene from the Life of St. Catherine by Antonio Vivarini," is dated 6 April 1927 (copy in NGA curatorial files. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1800).

Saint Apollonia Destroys a Pagan Idol

Giovanni d'Alemagna

c. 1442/1445

Accession Number

1939.1.7

Medium

tempera on poplar panel

Dimensions

overall: 59.4 x 34.7 cm (23 3/8 x 13 11/16 in.) | framed: 63.8 x 40.8 x 5.4 cm (25 1/8 x 16 1/16 x 2 1/8 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection