Provenance
The Rev. Walter Davenport Bromley (1787-1862); Christie's, 13 June 1863 (=2nd day), lot 106, as Taddeo Gaddi (16gns. to E. Southesk)
James, 9th Earl of Southesk (1827-1905), Kinnaird Castle, Brechin, Angus, Scotland
His son, Charles Noel, 10th Earl of Southesk (1854-1941)
with Matthiesen
Samuel Courtauld, by whom acquired in 1937
Bequeathed by him to Christabel, Lady Aberconway, and by inheritance to the present owners
Literature
R. van Marle, Quattro dipinti marchigiani del principio del Quattrocento, Rassegna Marchigiana, IV, 1926, p. 225
R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, VIII, The Hague, 1927, p. 252, illustrated opposite p. 252
B. Berenson, Missing Pictures by Arcangelo di Cola, International Studio, July 1929, pp. 21-5 (reprinted in B. Berenson, Homeless Paintings of the Renaissance, ed. H. Kiel, London, 1969, p. 14)
G. Pudelko, The Minor Masters of the Chiostro Verde, The Art Bulletin, 17, March 1935, p. 80
F. Antal, Florentine Painting and its Social Background, London, 1948, pp. 334-5 and 343, pl. 132
D. Cooper, The Courtauld Collection, 1954, p. 179, no. 232, pl. 86
A. Blunt, General Catalogue of the Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1960, p. 13, under no. 21
F. Zeri, Italian Primitives at Messrs Wildenstein, The Burlington Magazine, CVII, no. 746, May 1965, p. 255
A. Blunt, The Gambier-Parry Collection, London, 1967, p. 35, under no. 115
F. Zeri, Behind the Image. The art of reading paintings, London, 1987, pp. 201-3, fig. 33
E. Neri Lusanna, Aspetti della cultura tardo-gotica a Firenze: il "Maestro del Giudizio di Paride", Arte cristiana, LXXVII, no. 735, 1989, pp. 413 and 425, note 26, fig. 3
Exhibited
Edinburgh, National Gallery of Scotland, on loan, by 1926
London, Royal Academy, Italian Art and Britain, 2 Jan. - 6 March 1960, no.298
London, Wildenstein, The Art of Painting in Florence and Siena from 1250 to 1400, 24 Feb. - 10 April 1965, p. 19, no. 33, p. 21, under no. 35, fig. 24
