Devotional painting for a Florentine guild (Guild of Doctors and Apothecaries?): Saints Cosmas and Damian; [Left predella]: Miracle of the Transplantation of the Black Leg; [Right predella]: Decapitation of Saints Cosmas and Damian

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Devotional painting for a Florentine guild (Guild of Doctors and Apothecaries?): Saints Cosmas and Damian; [Left predella]: Miracle of the Transplantation of the Black Leg; [Right predella]: Decapitation of Saints Cosmas and Damian

Artist Matteo di Pacino Italian, active in Florence circa 1359–1374

Datecirca 1370–1374

MediumTempera and gold leaf on panel

DimensionsMain panel: 53 5/8 x 31 ¼ x 1 5/8 in. (135.6 x 79.4 x 4.1cm.)
Left predella: 7 ¼ x 16 1/8 x 1 ¼ in. (18.4 x 41 x 3.2 cm.)
Right predella: 7 ¼ x 16 x 1 ¼ in. (18.4 x 40.6 x 3.2 cm.)
Frame: 68 x 33 1/2 in. (172.7 x 85.1 cm)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineGift of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation

Object numberGL.60.17.9/a-c

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ProvenanceJ. Sumári, 1930s; Dr. Rudolf Bedö (1891–1978), Budapest, from whose collection it was likely sold shortly after a 1937–1938 exhibition in Budapest; [research in progress on sale from Budapest collector to Contini Bonacossi]; [Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878–1955), Rome and Florence]; Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York, on 1 September 1939 (as by the Master of the Rinuccini Chapel); on loan from the Kress Foundation to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1945–1954; returned to the Kress Foundation (1954?); given by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation to the NCMA, 1961.

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