The Agony in the Garden

Benvenuto di Giovanniprobably 1491

Details

Title: The Agony in the Garden
Creator: Benvenuto di Giovanni
Date Created: probably 1491
Physical Dimensions: painted surface: 42 × 46.7 cm (16 9/16 × 18 3/8 in.) overall size: 43.3 × 48 cm (17 1/16 × 18 7/8 in.) framed (with four other paintings): 59.69 × 283.21 × 5.4 cm (23 1/2 × 111 1/2 × 2 1/8 in.)
Provenance: (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence), by May 1938;[1] purchased 1938 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[2] gift 1939 to NGA. [1] Two of the expertises relative to NGA 1939.1.318 in the files of the Kress Foundation (copies in NGA curatorial files), by Wilhelm Suida and Giuseppe Fiocco, are dated May 1938. [2] See Fern Rusk Shapley, _Catalogue of the Italian Paintings_, 2 vols., Washington, D.C., 1979: 1:65. See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2055.
Medium: tempera on panel

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