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).
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
Credit Line
Samuel H. Kress Collection