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Materials:

tempera on panel, in an engaged frame

Size Notes:

painted surface 42.8 by 26 cm.

Description:

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Exhibited:

Amsterdam, Stedelijk, . Italiaansche Kunst in Nederlandsch Bezit , 1934, cat. no. 52 (as by Botticelli).

Literature:

H. Uhde-Bernays,"Ein unbekanntes Jünglingsbildnis des Sandro Botticelli," in . Der Cicerone , 5, 1913, pp. 195-96, reproduced (as Botticelli);. A. Venturi, . Botticelli , Rome 1925, p. 116, reproduced fig. 184 (as an early work by Botticelli);. R. van Marle,. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting . , The Hague 1931, vol. XII, p. 132, reproduced 135, fig. 78 (as by Botticelli, perhaps a portrait of a pupil);. B. Berenson, "Quadri senza casa: Il Quattrocento fiorentino III," in. Dedalo , vol. XII, 1932, p. 819-820, reproduced p. 820 (as attributed to Botticelli);. Stedelijk Museum, . Italiaanische Kunst in Nedelandsch Bezit , (exhibition catalogue), Amsterdam 1934, cat. no. 51, reproduced fig. 51 (as Botticelli);. B. Berenson,. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance . : The Florentine School , New York 1963, vol. I p. 146 (as the Master of San Miniato);. R. Salvini, . All the Paintings of Botticelli , New York 1965, vol. II, pp. 76-77, reproduced plate 131 (as attributed to Botticelli);. G. Mandel, . L'opera completa del Botticelli, Milan 1967, pp. 111-112, cat. no. 163, reproduced (as an artist in the circle of Botticelli, possibly a self-portrait of Mariano d'Antonio);. B. Berenson, . Homeless Paintings of the Renaissance, Bloomington and London 1970, p. 184, reproduced fig. 333 (as attributed to Botticelli);. B. Berenson and G. Dalli Regoli, . Il Maestro di San Miniato , Pisa 1988, p. 119 (as School of Botticelli);. S. Goodman, . The Orpheus Clock , New York 2015, p. 173, 194, 227-231 and 236 (as Botticelli).

Provenance:

Paolini, Rome, by 1912;. Marczell von Nemes collection, Budapest, by 1913;. With A.S. Drey, Munich (according to an annotation in the Bernard Berenson archive);. With Kleinberger, Paris, by 1925 (according to Adolfo Venturi, see Literature);. Friedrich 'Fritz' Gutmann, Heemstede, by 1931 and entrusted D. Katz, Dieren, for safe-keeping, circa 1939, and subsequently lost as a result of Nazi persecution;. Dr. Richard Wetzlar, Naarden, acquired circa 1955;. Anonymous sale ("Property of a European Collector"), New York, Sotheby's, 30 January 1997, lot 74 (as by Botticelli, the attribution endorsed by Everett Fahy; sold pursuant to a settlement with the heirs of Fritz Gutmann);. There acquired by the late collector.