LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

29.02 in. (73.70 cm.) (height) by 24.49 in. (62.20 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Grosvenor Gallery, Third National Loan, 1914-1915, no. 39 (as A Gentleman of the Colonna Family by Giorgione); London, Burlington House, Exhibition of Italian Art: 1200 – 1900, 1 January – 20 March 1930, no. 375 (as Attributed to Giulio Campi).

Literature:

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford 1932, p. 124 (as by Campi); B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London 1968, v. 1, p. 74 (as by Campi); R. Heinemann, et. alia, The Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, entry by R. Palluchini, Castagnola 1969, pp. 289-90, reproduced pl. 248.

Provenance:

Hugh Morrison, Fonthill House, Tisbury, Wiltshire; And thence by descent to The Rt. Hon. Lord Margadale of Islay, T.D., Fonthill House, Tisbury, Wiltshire; His sale, London, Christie's, 2 July 1965, lot 55 (as by Giulio Campi); Where purchased by Heinemann, on behalf of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza, Lugano.