? Commissioned by Caterina Nucciarelli for the monastery of San Girolamo delle Poverelle, Cortona, 1502;{Inscription and coats of arms on the object.} ? transferred to Chiesa di Sant’ Antonio Abate, Cortona, before 1745;{Recorded in Sernini Cucciatti (ed. Cardile) 1982, no. C.104v., p. 41 as ‘una tavola di terra cotta a basso rilievo, opera di Luca della Robbia. Rappresenta Maria Santissima col Bambino Gesù, S. Girolamo ed un S. Vescovo coll’iscrizione che dice: ‘Questa tavola l’ha fatta fare suore Caterina di Tommaso di Silvestro di Nuccarello 1502’; BCAE, ms. 424; AEC} collection of Signori Luigi e Girolamo Tommasi, Cortona, 1858;{Inventory 1858, no. 24 (‘un basso relievo di terra vetriata di Luca della Robbia contenente la madonna col bambino gesù con due santi che uno vescovo, contornata di vari bellissimi ornati di marmo con fregio sotto di figure in basso relievo’).} sold by descent through the family Tommasi, Signora Giulia Baldelli Boni, to Junius Spencer Morgan II (1867-1932), New York, 1906;{Written information Dott. Ing. Guido Tommasi Aliotti, Cortona, 1 November 1994, in Object File. With thanks to D.J. Dekker.} from whom on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 1908 - January 1911;{The Metropolitan Museum of Art Archives: Offices of the Secretary, Correspondence files 1870-1950, Junius A. Morgan 2nd, folder M8234. Morgan offerered to sell the object to The Metropolitan Museum of Art for circa $17,000/18,000 in October and December 1908, resulting in the withdrawal of his offer. In 1911 he offers the piece again for $40,000, but the museum declines. In a memorandum of 9 February 1911 curator Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner indicates he thought this price to be ‘absurdly high’. With thanks to Todor Petev for this information.} transferred to Junius Spencer Morgan II, Paris, 1911;{Ibidem.} …; sale, Raoul Heilbronner (1887-1914), Paris (Drouot), 22-23 June 1921, no. 142, to the dealer Frederik Muller, Amsterdam, possibly for Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris;{Coll. cat. 1973, p. 358.} his collection, before 1933;{Photo album ‘Het huis van Dr F. Mannheimer, Amsterdam’, 1928-32, Rijksmuseum, inv. no. B-F-1963-426-17.} purchased from his estate, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1952;{Note RMA.} transferred to the museum, 1960
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