LOT DETAILS
Materials:
tempera, oil and gold on panel, tondo
Size Notes:
62.9
Description:
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Markings:
signed for sale. This will usually be where it has guaranteed to the Seller that whatever the outcome of the auction
Exhibited:
London, The National Gallery, 1960-1978 (on extended loan). London, Agnews, Horace Buttery, 1902-1962: A Memorial Exhibition, June-June 1963, p. 8, no. 13 (as Botticelli). London, Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., The Art of Painting in Florence and Siena from 1250-1500, February-April 1965, no. 60 (illustrated, fig. 54; as Botticelli). Warsaw, Royal Castle, Opus Sacrum: The Collection of Barbara Piasecka Johnson, April-July 1990, pp. 88 and 90-93, no. 13 (illustrated in color, p. 89; entry by L. Puppi; as Botticelli and workshop). London, The National Gallery, Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s, October 1999-January 2000, p. 328, no. 84 (illustrated in color, p. 329; entry by N. Penny; as Botticelli).Seattle Art Museum, April 2007-January 2008 (on loan, as Botticelli). San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Truth & Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites & The Old Masters, June-September 2018, p. 152 (illustrated in color, pl. 71; as Botticelli).Seattle Art Museum, A Cultural Legacy: A Series of Paintings from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, November 2019-March 2020 (as Botticelli).
Literature:
M. Hauptmann, Der Tondo: Ursprung, Bedeutung und Geschichte des Italienischen Rundbildes in Relief und Malerei, Frankfurt am Main, 1936, p. 190, no. 3 (under note 2, as a Wiederholung). D. Sutton, The Mount Trust Collection" in The Connoisseur
Provenance:
Rev. J.M. Rhodes, Florence (acquired in Florence in the late 19th century).Ayerst Hooker Buttery, London.Julius Bhler, Munich (1926).Thomas Agnew & Sons, London (acquired from the above, 16 November 1951). Mount Trust Collection (Captain and Mrs. Vivian F. Bulkeley-Johnson) (acquired from the above, 31 December 1951); sale, Christie's, London, 1 December 1978, lot 113 (as Botticelli and Workshop).The Matthiesen Gallery, London; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London and Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York (by 1978). Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection (acquired from the above, 1980).Acquired from the above through Matthiesen Fine Art by the late owner, 1999.