Provenance
Tommaso di Folco Portinari and his wife, Maria Baroncelli, Bruges and palazzo Portinari, Florence (about 1470–Tommaso d. 1501)
posthumous inventory, 1501, "una tavoletta dipinta preg[i]ata cum nel mezo una immagine di Nostra Donna e delle bande si è Tommaso e mona Maria sua donna dipinti in deta tavoletta" [a small, valuable panel painting, with an image of Our Lady in the middle and on the sides painted Tommaso and mona Maria his wife]
his son, Francesco di Tommaso Portinari, palazzo Portinari, Florence (1501–in or after 1544)
bequeathed to the hospital of S Maria Nuova, mentioned in Francesco's 1544 will as "unum tabernaculettum que clauditur con tribus sportellis, in qua est depicta imago Gloriossime virginis Marie et patris et matris dicti testatoris" [a small tabernacle with three movable wings, in which is depicted the glorious Virgin Mary and the father and mother of the donor]
Santa Maria Nuova, Florence (in or after 1544, perhaps until the Napoleonic occupation)
private collection, Italy (until 1843 or 1845)
Anatole Nicolaevitch Demidov, principe di San Donato, and his wife, princesse Mathilde Laetitia Wilhelmine Bonaparte, Paris and Florence (1843 or 1845–his d. 1870)
his estate sale, Collections de San Donato, Pillet et Petit, Paris, 3-4 March 1870, nrs. 212 and 213, as "Portrait d'homme" and "Portrait de Femme," by Dieric Bouts, for Fr 6,000 to Huffer)
with Huffer
private collection, Rome (until about 1900)
with Elia Volpi, Florence, about 1900
with
Agnew, London, 1901
with Léopold Goldschmidt, Paris, 1901–d. before 1904
with Villeroy Goldschmidt, Paris, until 1910
with
Kleinberger, Paris and New York, 1910; sold for $ 426,500 to Altman
Benjamin Altman, New York (1910–d. 1913)
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