LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on panel

Measurements:

63.46 in. (161.20 cm.) (height) by 52.28 in. (132.80 cm.) (width)

Literature:

C. Gamba, Botticelli, Milan 1936, p. 209, cat. no. 10 (as Workshop of Botticelli);. C.L Ragghianti, "Inizio di Leonardo," in Critica d'Arte, I, 1954, p. 118 (as Botticelli);. R. Salvini, Tutta la pittura del Botticelli, Milan 1958, vol. II, 1958, p. 78, reproduced plate 155B (as School of Botticelli);. R. Lightbown, Botticelli, Complete Catalogue, Los Angeles 1978, vol. II, pp. 151-152, cat. no. C65, reproduced p. 151, fig. C65 (under Workshop and School pictures as untraced, "no attribution can safely be made of it in its absence");. G. Mandel, L'opera completa del Botticelli, Milan 1978, p. 116, cat. no. 115, reproduced (under Workshop and School pictures as untraced and therefore impossible to give an attribution);. N. Pons, Catalogo completo, Botticelli, Milan 1989, pp. 87-88, cat. no. 122, reproduced p. 87, fig. 122 (repeating comments of Lightbown and Mandel and suspending judgement until the painting is traced)..

Provenance:

Museo Guidi, Faenza;. Their sale, Rome, Galleria Sangiorgi, 21-27 April 1902, lot 499;. Rambaldi collection, Bologna;. Eugenio Burnath (or Bournat) collection, before 1924;. Bruno Canto, Milan;. In the present collection since at least 1963.