Physical Dimensions: painted surface: 36.2 x 38.1 cm (14 1/4 x 15 in.)
overall size: 37.5 x 39.4 cm (14 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.)
framed: 52.1 x 54 x 7.6 cm (20 1/2 x 21 1/4 x 3 in.)
Provenance: Private collection, Rome; (Sestieri's, Rome); (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence); sold July 1948 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1952 to NGA.
[1] The Kress Foundation made an offer to Contini Bonacossi on 7 June 1948 for a group of twenty-eight paintings, including _The Death of Saint Anthony_; the offer was accepted on 11 July 1948 (see copies of correspondence in NGA curatorial files, see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2141).