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The Crippled and Sick Cured at the Tomb of St. Nicholas

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Samuel H. Kress Collection

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Artist: Gentile da Fabriano (ca. 1370–1427)
Date: 1425
Material: Tempera on wood
Dimensions: panel: 36.4 × 35.9 cm
Provenance: Main altar(?) of San Niccolò Oltrarno, Florence; in the church until the 1780s; Tommaso Puccini (1749–1811), Villa a Scornia, near Pistoia, by ca. 1803–5; his nephew, Niccolò Puccini (1799–1852); Niccolò's sister, who married a member of the Tucci family; Marchese Alessandro Tucci and his co-heirs from the Spada family, Pistoia, by 1899; possibly art market, Rome, by 1928. (Count Alessandro Contini-Bonacossi, Florence); purchased June 1937 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York; gift to National Gallery of Art, 1939

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