LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel, transferred to canvas

Measurements:

22.48 in. (57.10 cm.) (height) by 16.73 in. (42.50 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, British Institution, Exhibition of Ancient Masters , 1858, no. 5, as Leonardo da Vinci. Los Angeles, The Los Angeles County Museum, Leonardo da Vinci: Loan Exhibition , 1949, no. 18, as Leonardo and Assistant (entry by W.E. Suida). Milan, Palazzo Reale, Arte Europea da una Collezione Americana , March-April 1964, no. 5, as Leonardo e aiuto (catalogue by R. De Grada). London, The National Gallery of Art, Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan , 9 November 2011-5 February 2012, no. 67 (catalogue entry by A. Mazzotta)

Literature:

G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain , London, 1854, III, p. 377, as Leonardo da Vinci. G. Scharf, Artistic and Descriptive Notes of the Most Remarkable Pictures in the British Institution Exhibition of the Ancient Masters, Pall Mall , London, 1858, pp. 5-6, no. 5, as Leonardo da Vinci. Mrs. C. Heaton, Leonardo da Vinci and his Works , London and New York, 1874, p. 292, as probably Leonardo da Vinci. A.F. Rio, De l'Art Chrétian , 1874, II, p. 98, as Leonardo da Vinci. G.F. Waagen, 'Über das Leben und die Werke des Leonardo da Vinci', in Kleine Schriften , Stuttgart, 1875, p. 156, as Leonardo da Vinci. J.W. Brown, A Treatise on Painting by Leonardo da Vinci , London, 1877, p. 237, as probably Leonardo da Vinci. B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance , London, 1968, I, p. 242. C. Marcora, Marco d'Oggiono , Oggiono, 1976, pp. 262-3, pl. 89. R.H. Rush, Art as an Investment , Englewood Cliffs, 1961, pp. 315-317. D. Sedini, Marco d'Oggiono: Tradizione e rinnovamento in Lombardia tra Quattrocento e Cinquecento , Milan and Rome, 1989, pp. 40-41, no. 9, as attributed to Marco d'Oggiono. D.A. Brown, 'The Master of the Madonna Litta', in M.T. Fiorio and P.C. Marani, eds., I Leonardeschi a Milano: Fortuna e collezionismo , Milan, 1991, pp. 25, 31 fig. 8, 33 nn. 17 and 18. J. Shell, 'Marco d'Oggiono', in G. Bora et al., The Legacy of Leonardo: Painters in Lombardy 1490-1530 , Milan, 1998, p. 169. A. Ballarin, 'Marco d'Oggiono', in Pittura del Rinascimento nell'Italia settentrionale (1480-1530) - Milano nell'età di Ludovico il Moro: Parte seconda: Altri problemi di leonardismo milanese di fine Quattrocento, Padua, 2000, pp. 132, 135

Provenance:

Joseph, Cardinal Fesch (1763-1839), Palazzo Falconieri, Rome, as Bernardino Luini. Rev. Walter Davenport Bromley, Wootton Hall, Staffordshire; (†), Christie's, London, 12 June 1863, lot 81, as Leonardo da Vinci (490 gns. to Goldsmith). Stanley Mortimer, New York, 1944; Parke-Bernet Galleries, 2 December 1944, lot 74, as Milanese Master of the Circle of Leonardo da Vinci. with Jacob Heimann, Los Angeles. (Probably) with French and Co., New York, from whom acquired by The Countess Nadia de Navarro in 1960