LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

17.76 in. (45.10 cm.) (height) by 13.11 in. (33.30 cm.) (width)

Condition:

unframed

Exhibited:

New York, Duveen Galleries, A Catalogue of early Italian Paintings exhibited at the Duveen Galleries, April-May 1924, no. 12.

Literature:

W. R. Valentiner, A Catalogue of early Italian Paintings exhibited at the Duveen Galleries, exhibition catalogue, New York 1926, cat. no. 12 (as Piero Pollaiolo); R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian School of Painting, The Hague 1929, vol. XI, pp. 393-395, reproduced, fig. 242 (as Piero Pollaiolo); C.H. Collins Baker, "Review: The Development of the Italian School of Painting XI," in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 56, no. 325 (April 1930), p. 218 (as a questioned attribution mentioned briefly in conjunction with a work attributed by van Marle to Piero della Francesca); R. van Marle, "Letter to the Editor, A Response to C.H. Collins Baker's Review of The Development of the Italian School of Painting XI," in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 56, no. 325 (April 1930) p. 280 (mentioned briefly in conjunction with the work attributed to Piero della Francesca, as Piero Pollaiolo); G. Colacicchi, Antonio del Pollaiolo, Florence 1943, p. xxxiii, no. 60, reproduced no. 60 (as Antonio del Pollaiolo); A. Sabatini, Antonio e Piero del Pollaiolo, Florence 1944, p. 110 (as a questioned attribution); S. Ortolani, Il Pollaiuolo, Milan 1948, p. 246, no. 191 (as Attributed to Piero Pollaiolo); reproduced pl. 191; L. Ragghianti Collobi, Catalogo della mostra d'arte antica: Lorenzo il Magnifico e le arti, exh. cat. Florence, Palazzo Strozzi, 21 May - 31 October 1949, Florence 1949, p. 49, under no. 4 (as a questioned attribution); B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, London 1963, vol. I, p. 179, reproduced, vol. II, fig. 774 (as Piero Pollaiolo); A. Busignani, Pollaiolo, Florence 1969, pp. CLVI-CLVII, reproduced (as Piero Pollaiolo); L.D. Ettlinger, Antonio and Piero Pollaiuolo: Complete Edition with a Critical Catalogue, New York 1978, p. 170, under cat. no. 62 (as a questionable attribution in need of further study); A. G. De Marchi, Falsi primitivi: Prospettive critiche e metodi di esecuzione, Torino 2001, p. 168, reproduced no. 151 (as Angiolo Tricca?) and p. 190, footnote 155; M. Secrest, Duveen: A Life in Art, New York 2004, p. 474; A. Galli, The Pollaiolo Brothers, eng. trans., Milan 2005, p. 452, under note 50 (as Piero Pollaiolo); A. Ottani Cavina et. al., Federico Zeri: Diertro L'Immagine. Opere d'arte e fotografia, Torino 2009, p. 146, no. 1, reproduced (as Piero del Pollaiolo, Bottega o Maniera).

Provenance:

Count Isolani, Bologna; Baron Michele Lazzaroni, Paris; With Duveen Bros., New York & London; By whom sold to Mr. William Salomon, New York, before 1919; His deceased sale, ("Notable Paintings and other Rare Examples of the Art of the Italian Renaissance and Earlier Italian Periods"), New York, American Art Association, 26-27 January 1923, lot 214, where it was acquired prior to the sale by Duveen Bros., New York; From whom acquired by Mr. Nils B. Hersloff, East Orange, New Jersey, before 1926; Thence by descent in the family to the present owner.