LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on panel, a tondo

Size Notes:

diam

Description:

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Literature:

G. Mandel, in C. Bo,. L'opera completa del Botticelli , Milan 1967, p. 99 under cat. no. 93 (as a variant of the Galleria Borghese. tondo );. R. Lightbown, . Botticelli , Paris 1990, p. 401, under cat. no. c50 (as a variant of the Abernon. tondo); N. Pons,. Botticelli, Catalogo Completo , Milan 1989, p. 80, under cat. no. 91(as a variant of the Galleria Borghese. tondo ).

Provenance:

Presumably sold by the Estate of Dominique Vivant Denon, Paris, Commissaire-Priseur Masson, "Description des objets d'arts qui compensent le cabinet de feu M. le Baron V," 2 May 1826 (as Botticelli, for 265 francs);. Del Nero collection, Rome, before 1890;. Leo Nardus (né Leonardus Salomon), Paris, by 1925 (as Botticelli);. By whom offered, Amsterdam, Mak van Waay, 26-27 May 1925, lot 9 (as Botticelli, bought in);. Leo Nardus (né Leonardus Salomon) and Arnold van Buuren, Haarlem (in joint ownership);. Confiscated from the van Buuren residence, Haarlem, August 1942 and transferred to the bank Lippmann, Rosenthal & Co, Amsterdam;. By whom sold, Cologne, Lempertz, 2 June 1943, lot 7 (as School Sandro Botticelli, sold for RM 19,000);. Private collection, Cologne;. By whom sold, Cologne, Van Ham Kunstauktionen, 14 November 2014, lot 502 (as Botticelli and Studio, sold pursuant to a settlement agreement between the consignor and the heir of Leo Nardus);. There acquired by the present owner. . .