Panel from an altarpiece: The Mourning Saint John the Evangelist

Artist Pietro Perugino Italian, active in Tuscany, Umbria, and Rome, circa 1450–1523

Datecirca 1520

MediumTempera on panel

DimensionsDiameter.: 8 in. (20.3 cm)
Frame: Diam. 13 1/2 x Depth 3 in. (34.3 x 7.6 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.34

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Provenance[Probably Sir Francis Cook (1817-1901), 1st Bart., Visconde de Monserrate, Portugal, Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey; by inheritance to his son Sir Frederick Cook, 2nd Bart., Richmond, Surrey; sold or exchanged to Sir John Charles Robinson (1853-1913), London; [his son, Charles Newton Robinson?]; sold, Robinson estate sale, Rudolf Lepke, Berlin, March 31, 1914, no. 55, ill. pl. 16, as Pietro Perugino Vanucci, from the collection of Sir Frederick Cook; Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, 1938; gift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.

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