The Trinity with Saints

Francesco Pesellino (1422 - 1457)

National Gallery

1455 - 1460

The painting is the right hand section of the central altar piece panel, which originally depicted a crucifixion scene with angels and saints. Saint Zeno (a bishop) stands behind holding a staff and Saint Jerome holds a book. The whole altar piece has now been reassembled in the National Gallery

• Medium: tempera on wood
• Dimensions: 82 x 57 cm
• ArtFunded in: 1929
• Presented by Sir Joseph Duveen through The Art Fund

Provenance

From an altarpiece commissioned for S.Trinita, Pistoia and completed by Filippo Lippi; passed into the Ottley Collection and sawn up into pieces; this part went to the emperor of Germany.

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