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Materials:

tempera and oil on panel

Measurements:

26.73 in. (67.90 cm.) (height) by 19.49 in. (49.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

New York, Remington Rand, . Christmas Exhibition, 20-30 December 1946;. New York, Lord & Taylor, 16-23 April 1947;. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. , Venetian Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1 May - 2 September 1974

Literature:

J. Breck, "Dipinti italiani nella raccolta del Signor Teodoro Davis," in . Rassegna d'arte, no. 11, July 1911, p. 112;. B. Berenson, "Note su Pietro e Antonio da Messina," in . Rassegna d'arte, 13, April 1913, pp. 58-59, reproduced opposite p. 57 (as datable circa 1487-1488);. A. Venturi, "La pittura del Quattrocento," in . Storia dell'arte italiana, vol. 7, part 4, 1915, pp. 94, 96;. B. Berenson, . Venetian Painting in America: The Fifteenth Century, New York 1916, pp. 41-43, reproduced fig. 21;. E. Sandberg-Vavalà, "Un dipinto Sconosciuto di Antonio da Saliba di Verona," in . Bollettino d'arte, no. 6, June 1927, pp. 558, 565-566, notes 3 and 13 (as a work related to a group of paintings by Antonio and Pietro da Saliba);. W. Suida, "Einige italienische Gemälde im Landesmuseum zu Brünn," in . Belvedere, no. 8, 1929, p. 255;. G. Gronau, . Giovanni Bellini: Des Meisters Gemälde, Stuttgart 1930, p. 218, under cat. no. 192 (as by Antonello de Saliba after Giovanni Bellini);. S. Bottari, "Richerche intorno agli Antonelliani," in . Bollettino d'arte, no. 10, 1931, pp. 309, 312-314;. B. Burroughs, "The Theodore M. Davis Bequest: The Paintings,". in Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, 26, section 2, March 1931, pp. 14, 16;. B. Berenson, . Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford 1932, p. 496;. R.L. Douglas, "Photographic Evidence," . Burlington Magazine, no. 60, June 1932, p. 288;. R. van Marle, . The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting: The Renaissance Painters of Central and Southern Italy, vol. 15, The Hague 1934, p. 567, note 3, andd p. 574, note 4 (as Pietro da Saliba);. B. Berenson, . Pitture italiane del rinascimento, Milan 1936, p. 427;. R.L. Douglas, . A Few Italian Pictures Collected by Godfrey Locker-Lampson, London. circa 1937, p. 8, under cat. no. 1;. H.B. Wehle, . The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Italian, Spanish, and Byzantine Paintings, New York 1940, pp. 176-177, reproduced;. G. Vigni and G. Carandente, . Catalogo della mostra di Antonello di Messina e delle pittura del '400 in Sicilia, Venice 1953, p. 80;. B. Berenson, . Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, London 1957, vol. I, p. 8;. F. Heinemann, . Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani, Venice 1962, vol. I, p. 11, under cat. no. 40k;. B.B. Frederickson and F. Zeri, . Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1972, pp. 10, 342, 607;. F. Zeri and E. Gardner, . Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Venetian School, New York 1973, p. 3, reproduced plate 3;. M. Lucco, . Antonello da Messina: L'opera completa, exhibition catalogue. , Rome 2006, p. 338

Provenance:

Art market, Florence (as Pietro da Messina);. Where acquired by Theodore M. Davis, Newport, April 1902;. By whom bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1915 (Inv. no. 30.95.249