The Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Lucy (center); Saints Anthony Abbot and John the Baptist (left); the Crucifixion (right): Triptych for individual devotion

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The Virgin and Child with Saints Catherine of Alexandria and Lucy (center); Saints Anthony Abbot and John the Baptist (left); the Crucifixion (right): Triptych for individual devotion

ArtistWorkshop of Ambrogio Lorenzetti ; addition by an unknown artist working in Avignon or Naples Italian, active 1319–1347

Datecirca 1330s

MediumTempera and gold leaf on panel

DimensionsLeft panel: 15 x 5 1/4 in. (38.1 x 13.4 cm); center panel: 15 1/4 x 10 1/8 in. (38.8 x 25.7 cm); right panel: 15 x 4 7/8 in. (38.1 x 12.4 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.6

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On view

ProvenanceComtesse de Missiessi [Missiessy?], Bordeaux; [possibly private collection, Pau; Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi;] International Financing Co., S.A., Panama City; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1957; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.
Published ReferencesThe Samuel H. Kress Collection (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1960), 28, illus. (b-w) 29.

Fern Rusk Shapley, Paintings from the Samuel H. Kress Collection: Italian Schools XIII - XV Century, Vol. 1 (London: ThePhaidon Press, 1966), 56, illus. fig. 146 (K2142).

Erling Skaug, "Notes on the Chronology of Ambrogio Lorenzetti and a New Painting from his Shop," Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 20, no. 3 (1976), 301-332, footnotes 43, 314.

Allesandro Conti, "Problemi di Miniatura Bolognese," Bollettino d'Arte 2 (April-June 1979),19.

Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 174.

Anna de Floriani, "Rapporti tra la pittura della Francia meridizionale e della Liguria tra XIV e XV secolo: alcune testimonianze significative," in Entre l'Empire et la mer (Rome: Viella, 2007), 86-87, illus. 112, fig. 20.

Anna de Floriani, "Pittura del trecento fra Genova e Avignone: Osservazioni in merito ad alcuni studi recenti e un'ipotesi ligure per il trittico di Angers," in Studi di Storia dell'Arte (Todi: Ediart, December 2007), 26-27, illus. 29, fig. 9

Perri Lee Roberts, Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections: The South, Vol. 3 (Athens, GA: Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, 2009), discussed 636, illus. (b-w) 637.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "A Gift to North Carolina: Italian Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection," February 5-April 24, 1994, handout no. 1.

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