The Crucifixion with the Converted Centurion

Dr. Demiani, Leipzig, by 1899;[1] (sale, Rudolph Lepke, Berlin, 11 November 1913, no. 40). Mrs. Jenö Hubay [née Countess Cebrian Rosa]; sold after her husband's death in 1937 to Mathias Salamon; acquired 1947 by Aladar Feigel, Budapest; George Biro; sold 1952 to (Dominion Gallery, Montreal);[2] sold 1952 to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), jointly owned by (Pinakos [Rudolf Heinemann], Inc., New York); purchased February 1952 by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[3] gift 1961 to NGA.[4] [1] The painting was lent to the 1899 _Cranach-Ausstellung_ in Dresden. [2] Letter dated 8 January 1952 from George Biro to the Dominion Gallery, Dominion Gallery Fonds, Box 71, file 4, purchased 1951-1959, A-E, National Gallery of Canada (copy in NGA curatorial files). See also letter of 8 January 1952 from Max Stern, Dominion Gallery, to Charles Henschel, M. Knoedler & Co., in Knoedler files (copy in NGA curatorial records). [3] M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Stock book no. 10, p. 67, and Sales book no. 16, no. A4763 (copies in NGA curatorial files, see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2128). [4] The painting was at the NGA from June 1953, but was not formally given to the Gallery by the Kress Foundation until 1961.