Predella panel (B) from the high altarpiece of the Abbey of Santa Maria Assunta, Monteveglio: The Dormition of the Virgin

Artist Lorenzo Costa Italian, c.1460–d Mantua, 5 Mar. 1535

Datecirca 1490

MediumTempera on panel

Dimensions10 1/4 x 12 1/2 in. (26 x 31.8 cm)
Frame: 15 x 17 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. (38.1 x 44.1 x 5.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.37

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ProvenanceCommissioned (together with main altarpiece depicting the Assumption of the Virgin) ca. 1488-90 by the Canons Regular of the Lateran of San Giovanni in Monte, Bologna for the abbey church of Santa Maria Assunta, Monteveglio (near Bologna); separated from main altarpiece at an unrecorded date; B. W. Currier collection, England by 1894-95 [exh. 1894-95]; sold Christie, Manson & Woods, London, May 14, 1926, lot 54 (as Luigi Vivarini, bought by Dean [a York dealer?]); Briganti collection, Rome; Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1937; on loan to National Gallery of Art 1939-ca. 1959; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.

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