LOT DETAILS
Materials:
tempera on panel
Measurements:
13.98 in. (35.50 cm.) (height) by 10.35 in. (26.30 cm.) (width)
Description:
Exhibited:
Paris, Palais des Corps Legislatifs, Exposition des Alsaciens-Lorrains, 1847, no. 672;. New York, M. Knoedler and Co., Loan in Honor of Royal Cortissoz, 1-20 December 1941, no. 6 (as Botticelli);. Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, on loan.
Literature:
L. Venturi, "Contribuiti a Botticelli," in L'Arte, III, September 1932, pp. 413, 417-418, reproduced fig. 3, (as Botticelli circa 1498-1500);. L. Venturi, Italian Paintings in North America, vol. II, New York 1933, pp. 163 and 213, reproduced fig. 256;. J. Mesnil, Botticelli, Paris 1938, p. 163 (as Workshop of Botticelli);. R. Langton Douglas, "Review of the Exhibition in Honor of Royal Cortissoz," in Art in America, vol. 30, no. 1, January 1942, p. 63 (as Botticelli);. R. Salvini, Tutta la pittura del Botticelli, Milan 1958, vol. II, pp. 78-79, reproduced fig. 156 (as Workshop of Botticelli);. M. Esterow, "Norton Simon Foundation to Buy Mansion and $15 Million Art Collection of Duveen Gallery," in The New York Times, 21 April 1964, p. 27 (as Botticelli);. R. Lightbown, Sandro Botticelli, Berkeley 1978, vol. II, p. 125, under cat. no. 19 (as Workshop of Botticelli, based only on black and white photographs). .
