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Uccello is known to have painted the subject several times and a painting in Paris (Musée Jacquemart-André) may be an earlier version. The picture is one of the earliest paintings on canvas in the National Gallery and has a complicated layer of priming below the paint surface.
Lanckoronski collection, Vienna, by 1898; from where bought with a special grant and other contributions, 1959.
Davies 1961, pp. 532-3
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