LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on panel, a tondo

Size Notes:

diameter

Literature:

Possibly F. Bocchi, Le Bellezze della città di Fiorenza, Florence 1591, p. 182 (as Botticelli, in the collection of Baccio Valori, "Tondo molto grande, doue di mano di Sandro Botticelli è dipinta vna Madonna, che ha il puttino in collo di leggiardo colorito. È di aria nobile la Vergine, & il figliuolo altresi: & due Angeli in graziosa vista, & lieta sono di vero bellissimi, & molto rari. Due vasi di rose, le quali mostrano mirabil freschezza, accendono fi letizia chi mira, & il colorito nel tutto vago rende questa pittura nobile & rara.");. Possibly F. Bocchi, G, Cinelli (ed.), Le Bellezze della città di Fiorenza, Florence 1677, p. 365;. Possibly F. Baldinucci, Notizie de' Professori del disegno da Cimabue in qua: Secolo III e IV dal 1400 al 1540, Florence 1728, p. 138 (as Botticelli, in the collection of Alessandro Valori);. H. Davies, Cheltenham Looker-On, Autumn 1842;. H. Davies, Hours in the Picture Gallery of Thirlestane House, Cheltenham: Being notices of some of the principal paintings in Lord Northwick's collection, Cheltenham 1843, p. 13, cat. no. 18 (as Raphael); . H. Ulmann, Sandro Botticelli, Munich 1893, pp. 123, 152 (as Workshop of Botticelli);. G.N. Plunkett, Sandro Botticelli, London 1900, p. 101 (as Workshop of Botticelli);. L. Cust, in Les Arts, October, 1907, p. 26;. H.P. Horne, Alessandro Filipepi, commonly called Sandro Botticelli, painter of Florence. Appendix III : catalogue of the works of Sandro Botticelli, and of his disciples and imitators, together with notices of those erroneously attributed to him, in the public and private collections of Europe and America, Ms. 1908, Florence 1987, cat. no. 68 (as Botticelli "during his middle period," in the collection of Robert H. Benson);. A. Venturi, Storia dell'arte italiana, Milan 1911, vol. VII, part I, p. 642 and 697, under note 1 (as School of Botticelli);. T, Borenius, Catalogue of Italian pictures at 16, South Street, Park Lane, London and Buckhurst in Sussex; collected by Robert and Evelyn Benson, London 1914, p. 49, cat. no. 26 (as School of Botticelli);. A. Venturi, Storia dell'arte italiana, Milan 1925, vol. VII, part I, p. 118 (as Attributed to Botticelli). G. Fiocco, "A newly discovered tondo by Botticelli," in The Burlington Magazine, LVIII, October 1930, pp. 153-54 (as Botticelli);. "Masterpiece is Discovered," in The Cincinnati Enquirer, 23 October 1930 (as Botticelli);. R. van Marle, "The School of Botticelli," in The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, The Hague 1931, p. 233 (as School of Botticelli, known only through photographs);. R. Salvini, Tutta la pittura del Botticelli, Milan 1958, vol. II, p. 73, reproduced plate 133B (as Workshop of Botticelli, very high quality, possibly based on a design by the master, dating to circa 1487); . M. Levey and G. Mandel, The Complete Paintings of Botticelli, London 1970, p. 99, cat. no. 90 (as "a high quality work" by Botticelli);. C. Bo and G. Mandel, L'opera completa del Botticelli, Milan 1978, p. 99, cat. no. 90 (as Botticelli);. R. Lightbown, Sandro Botticelli, Complete Catalogue, London and Berkeley 1978, vol. II, p. 133, cat. no. C31, (as Workshop of Botticelli) and possibly p. 217, cat. no. G13 (under Lost Works);. N. Pons, Botticelli, Catalogo completo, Milan 1989, p. 74, cat. no. 72, reproduced fig. 72 (as Workshop of Botticelli);. Possibly F. Bocchi, T. Frangenberg and R. Williams (eds.), The Beauties of the Cities of Florence, A Guidebook of 1591, London 2006, pp. 173-174 (as Botticelli).

Provenance:

Possibly Baccio Valori, Florence, by 1591;. Possibly by descent to Alessandro Valori, Palazzo Valori, by 1 January 1696;. John Rushout, 2nd Baron Northwick (1770-1859), Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, until 1859;. His sale, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Phillips, 3 August 1859, lot 587 (30 guineas to Colnaghi on behalf of Nichols, as Botticelli);. There acquired by Richard P. Nichols, Cliftonville, Brighton, in 1859 until 1875;. By whom sold, London, Christie's, 30 April 1875, lot 19 (205 guineas to Colnaghi on behalf of the below, as Botticelli);. Sir George Salting (1836-1909), London, in 1875 until 1885;. From whom acquired by Robert H. Benson (1850-1929) and his wife, Evelyn Benson (1856-1943), London, in 1885 until 1927;. From whom acquired with the entirety of their collection by Sir Joseph Duveen (1869-1939), later 1st Baron Duveen, London, in 1927;. Baron Michele Lazzaroni, Rome, by 1929;. With John Levy Galleries, New York, by 1930;. From whom acquired by Mr. E.W. Edwards, Cincinnati, Ohio by October 1930;. Thence by descent to his daughter, Eleanor Wood Prince (1911-2008), Chicago, by 1978;. By whose estate sold, New York, Christie's, 28 January 2009, lot 8 (as Studio of Botticelli).