Arcangelo di Jacopo del Sellaio Florence circa 1477/8-1530

Sir William Neville Abdy, Bart., of 21 Park Square East, Regent's Park, London, and The Elms, Newdigate, Dorking;
His deceased sale, London, Christie's, 5 May 1911, lot 105 (as Domenico Ghirlandaio), for 1,500 gns. to Sedelmeyer;
With Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, by 1913;
With Canson, Paris (as Attributed to Domenico Ghirlandaio);
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by whom purchased from the above in 1954;
Sale of the Estate of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., New York, Sotheby's, 1 June 1989, lot 4, where purchased by the present owner.

Norfolk (Virginia), Chrysler Museum, February 1975, on loan.

IIllustrated catalogue of the Twelfth Series of One Hundred Paintings by Old Masters: Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris 1913, cat. no. 40, reproduced (as Domenico de Ghirlandaio);
M. Nasoni, in Pittura italiana dal '300 al '500, ed. M. Natale, Milan 1991, p. 168, reproduced (as Master of the Miller Tondo).

Everett Fahy was the first to associate these panels with an artist that he named after a panel of the Holy Family bequeathed by Adolph Caspar Miller to the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachussetts.  The artist has since been convincingly identified by Nicoletta Pons as Arcangelo, son of Jacopo del Sellaio (see N. Pons, "Arcangelo di Jacopo del Sellaio", in Arte Cristiana, 84. no. 776, Sept. – Oct. 1996, pp. 374-388). The en grisaille reliefs showing the Temptation and the Expulsion from the Garden of Eden on either side of the arch in the background, derive from Masaccio and Masolino's frescoes of 1425 in the Brancacci Chapel, church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence (though the latter is shown in reverse).