The Visitation with Saint Nicholas and Saint Anthony Abbot

Provenance

Commissioned 1489/1490 for the Cappella Capponi of San Niccolò, Santo Spirito, Florence; moved 1713 to the Villa Capponi a Legnaia, near Florence. The Hon. Mrs. Frederick West [c. 1772-1843, née Maria Myddelton, the second wife of Frederick West], Chirk Castle, south of Wrexham, Wales; by inheritance to her son, Frederick Richard West [1799-1862], Chirk Castle, and Ruthin Castle, west of Wrexham, Wales; by inheritance to his son, William Cornwallis Cornwallis-West [1835-1917], Ruthin Castle, and Newlands Manor, Milford on Sea, near Lymington, Hampshire. (Thomas Agnew & Sons, London); (Duveen Brothers, Inc., New York), by 1933; sold 1937 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1939 to NGA. [1] See also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2356.

The Visitation with Saint Nicholas and Saint Anthony Abbot

Piero di Cosimo

c. 1489/1490

Accession Number

1939.1.361

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

overall: 184.2 x 188.6 cm (72 1/2 x 74 1/4 in.) | framed: 235.6 x 250.2 x 12.1 cm (92 3/4 x 98 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Samuel H. Kress Collection