It is in the collection of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.[1] The artwork was painted for the altar of the Guardini chapel on the left wall of the Chiesa di San Niccolò Oltrarno [it] in Florence.

The date of the painting is tied to the question of Masolino's capacity for using perspective—he might have developed the technique either on his own or with the help of his collaborator on the Brancacci Chapel, Masaccio.

[2] In 1567, the panel was transferred to another chapel, and in 1576 it was placed in the church's sacristy, when it was substituted by a more modern Annunciation painted by Alessandro Fei.

[1] It passed on in inheritance until it was found in London in 1915 by the antiquarian Robert Langton Douglas,[3] who in 1916 gave it to Henry Goldman of New York.

His figure is of elegant aristocracy with a mantle that creates drapery of articulate, moving lines in the International Gothic style.