St. Veronica is shown displaying a linen cloth on which, according to legend, the face of Christ was miraculously imprinted when she wiped his face on the way to Calvary. The painter is unknown, but seems to have been an artist of Domenico Ghirlandaio's school active in 15th century Florence. The subject of Veronica was rather rare in Italy, and the influence of Northern painting has been pointed out in this panel. (Source: The Digital Gallery. 1999-2006)

Provenance

A cloister in Valdarno, Italy; Santissima Annunziata, Firenze; Madame la Comtesse Durrieu, Paris; Comte Demandolx-Dedons, Marseille; Comte P..., Paris; Owned jointly in 1967 by Thomas Agnew and Sons, London, and Frederick Mont, New York.

Exhibition History

1904

Les primitifs français, Paris, 1904 - 1904, cat. no. 114

1952

Cent tableaux d'art religieux du XIVe siècle à nos jours, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 1952 - 1953, cat. no. 40, repr. (attributed to Provence school)

1999

Florence and Venice: Italian Renaissance Paintings and Sculpture from the State Hermitage Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 20 March 1999 - 20 June 1999, cat. no. 10

1999

Rhetorik der Leidenschaft - Zur Bildsprache der Kunst in Abendland: Meisterwerke aus der Graphische Sammlung Albertina und aus der Porträtsammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek (The Body in Memory: Warburg's Treasury of Images), National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 6 July 1999 - 29 August 1999, cat. no. 4

2000

Tanka at the National Museum of Western Art: An Encounter between Poet and Art, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 25 July 2000 - 29 October 2000, cat. no. 13

Bibliography

1942

Gillet, L. Les primitifs français. Marseille, 1942, pl. 3 (attributed to French school).

1950

Duchel, R. L'art sacré. Art et Style. vol. 26, 1950, p. 4, repr (attributed to Provence school).

1968

Fahy, E. Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandajo. Cambridge (Mass.), Harvard University, 1968, Dessertation, p. 221 (attributed to Pietro del Donzello).

1973

Bulletin Annuel du Musée National d’Art Occidental. No.6 (1971), 1973, Nouvelles acquisitions, par Chisaburoh F. Yamada, pp. 3-5. Nouvelles acquisitions (catalogue). pp.8-9, repr. (as a work of the Provence School).

1973

Gazette des Beaux-Arts. ser. 6, tome 81, Feb. 1973, "Chronique des Arts", p. 233, no. 841, repr.

1975

Les cent chefs-d'œuvre du Musée National d'Art Occidental. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1975 (Japanese), no. 10, repr.

1978

Masterpieces of the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1978 (Japanese, preface in Japanese and English), no. 9, repr.

1979

The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 141, repr.