LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera and oil on panel, a tondo

Size Notes:

diameter

Description:

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Exhibited:

London, The Royal Academy, 1908, no. 32. Caracas, Museo delle Belle Arti, 1953. Mexico, D.F., University City, 1954. Ciudad Trujillo, Palacio de Belas Artes, 1956. Milan, Palazzo Reale, Arte Europea da una Collezione Americana , March-April 1964, no. 2, as 'Sandro Botticelli' (catalogue by R. De Grada)

Literature:

A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions , Bath, 1913, I, p. 88, as Sandro Botticelli. G. Mandel, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Botticelli , Paris, 1968, p. 103, under no. 113, as Follower of Botticelli. R. Lightbown, Sandro Botticelli , Berkeley, 1978, II, p. 153, under no. C68, as Studio of Botticelli, 16th century

Provenance:

Private collection, Arezzo. Lord Grimthorpe; Christie's, London, 12 May 1906, lot 20, as Sandro Botticelli (5,000 gns. to the following). with Agnew's, London. C. Fairfax Murray; his sale, Galerie Petit, Paris, 15 June 1914, lot 4. Anonymous sale, Christie's, London, 14 December 1917, lot 34, as Sandro Botticelli (2,800 gns. to Amor). Sir Ernest Cassel. with Jacob Heimann, Los Angeles, 1951. with French and Co., New York, c. 1954, from whom acquired by The Countess Nadia de Navarro, Glen Head, New York