Introduction by John Walker, text by William E. Paintings and Sculpture from the Kress Collection Acquired by the Samuel H. The Wildenstein invoice to the Kress Foundation for 16 items, including the predella paintings, is dated 23 June 1949 (copy in NGA curatorial files, see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, ). by at least February 1949, when John Walker saw them (see his 28 February 1949 letter to George Wildenstein, copy in NGA curatorial files). The four paintings were with Wildenstein & Co. 20, 1946: 'All four panels were sold by Sir Francis Cook since then they have been sold again and, to my regret, the present owner does not want to have his name known.'" The Wildenstein invoice (see note 4) lists only all four Cook family owners. Paul Drey wrote to the National Gallery in a letter of Sept. See Fern Rusk Shapley, Catalogue of the Italian Paintings, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 67 n. There is no record of who purchased NGA 1952.5.52-.55 from Drey. See copy of correspondence in NGA curatorial files, from the Cook Collection Archive in care of John Somerville, England. See Tancred Borenius, A Catalogue of the Paintings in the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook, Bt., 3 vols., London, 1913: 1: no. It is not known what happened to his own collection after his death. Luigi De Angelis (on whom see Ubaldo Cagliaritano, Mamma Siena, Siena, 1971: 523) was entrusted with gathering and reordering the works of art belonging to the suppressed religious orders and thus with creating what was to become the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Siena. The NGA paintings 1952.5.52-.55 would then be purchased from the monastery, probably already framed together (as suggested by the wrong order in which they are described by De Angelis), in the same form they would have when illustrated in the catalogue of the Cook collection (see note 2). Probably at the time the altarpiece was moved from the church the predella, as was customary, was divided into "little pictures" distributed among the monks' cells. All four are by Benvenuto." He does not state it explicitly, but it is very probable that De Angelis knew the provenance of these paintings and the fact that they originally belonged with the Ascension of Christ by Benvenuto, which at least since 1768 was missing its predella (see Guglielmo Della Valle ( Lettere sanesi.sopra le belle arti, vol. ![]() One very crowded with figures represents the capture in the garden, one the crucifixion, the third the resurrection and the fourth, painted with great skill, is the descent into Limbo. De Angelis continues: "In my modest possession are four little pictures two thirds of a braccio high and one and one-sixth braccio wide, with lovely little figures, which could easily be mistaken for the work of Mantegna. ![]() 434) that was originally in the atrium of the sacristy of the monastery of Sant'Eugenio near Siena, and from there moved to Siena to the city's old university called the Sapienza. The note first describes in detail the altarpiece Ascension of Christ (Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena, no. According to a handwritten note of that date by the abbot De Angelis in the Archives of the Uffizi (De Angelis, folio 337r.).
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