![]() 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.). Kress Collection, New York gift 1952 to NGA. (Wildenstein & Co., New York) purchased June 1949 by the Samuel H. , Doughty House, and Cothay Manor, Somerset sold April 1946 to (Francis A. , Doughty House by inheritance to his son, Sir Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 4th bt. , Doughty House by inheritance to his son, Sir Herbert Frederick Cook, 3rd bt. ![]() , Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey by inheritance to his son, Sir Frederick Lucas Cook, 2nd bt. Acquired 1875 through Sir John Charles Robinson, London, by Sir Francis Cook, 1st bt. Provenance: Luigi de Angelis, Siena, by 1824.
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