KRESS COLLECTION DIGITAL ARCHIVE
Giovanni d'Alemagna, died 1450, active in Italy Saint Apollonia Destroys a Pagan Idol
KRESS CATALOGUE NUMBER IDENTIFIER K7 1800
ARTIST NATIONALITY d'Alemagna, Giovanni, died 1450, active in Italy Italian
DATE MEDIUM c. 1442/1445 tempera on poplar panel
TYPE OF OBJECT Painting
DIMENSIONS 59.4 x 34.7 cm (23 3/8 x 13 11/16 in)
LOCATION National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia
HISTORICAL ATTRIBUTION Vivarini, Antonio, c. 1415-1476/1484
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
NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, WASHINGTON, DC, GALLERY ARCHIVES Page 1 KRESS COLLECTION DIGITAL ARCHIVE from the Life of St. Catherine by Antonio Vivarini," is dated 6 April 1927 (copy in NGA curatorial files).
ACCESSION NUMBER 1939.1.7
KRESS NUMBER 7
LEGACY NGA NUMBER 118
1 ACQUISITION Contini Bonacossi, Alessandro, April 6, 1927
1 DISTRIBUTION Gift to National Gallery of Art, June 29, 1939
EXTERNAL LINKS Related Collection Record https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.147.html
Related National Gallery of Art Library Image Collections Record https://library.nga.gov/permalink/01NGA_INST/1p5jkvq/alma99943493804896
Related National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalog https://library.nga.gov/permalink/01NGA_INST/1cl1g8d/alma992014793504896
14 ARCHIVAL ITEMS
K0007 - Expert opinion by Berenson, circa 1920s-1950s
K0007 - Expert opinion by Gronau, 1926
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K0007 - Expert opinion by Longhi, 1926
K0007 - Expert opinion by Mayer, 1926
K0007 - Expert opinion by Perkins, 1926
K0007 - Expert opinion by Suida, 1926
K0007 - Alan Burroughs report, circa 1930s-1940s
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K0007 - Alan Burroughs report, circa 1930s-1940s
K0007 - Expert opinion by Fiocco, 1936
K0007 - Expert opinion by A. Venturi, 1936
K0007 - Work summary log, 1942-1964
K0007 - Expert opinion by Suida, 1952
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K0007 - Condition and restoration record, circa 1950s-1960s
K0007 - Examination summary, 1990
RECORD LINK https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/1800
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