LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel, transferred to canvas

Measurements:

34.76 in. (88.30 cm.) (height) by 26.89 in. (68.30 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Sedelmeyer, 1905, no. 45, as Albertinelli. Florence, Palazzo Pitti and Museo di San Marco, L’Eta di Savonarola. Fra’ Bartolomeo e la scuola di San Marco, 25 April-28 July 1996, no. 8, as Fra Bartolomeo and illustrated in the reverse (entry by E. Fahy).

Literature:

A. Venturi, Storia dell’Arte Italiana, Milan, 1925, IX, pp. 354-355, fig. 254, as Albertinelli. Realités, December 1962, p. 23. L. Borgo, The Works of Mariotto Albertinelli, unpublished thesis, Harvard University, 1968, pp. 82-83, 203, no. I,5, fig. 6, as Albertinelli.

Provenance:

(Possibly) Salamanca collection, Madrid, before 1885. Otto D. Droop, Havana, 1885, from whom acquired by Edmond Huybrechts (1834-1901), Antwerp; his sale (†), Antwerp, 12-15 May 1902, lot 155, as Italian School. with Galerie Sedelmeyer, Paris, by 1905, as Albertinelli. Anonymous sale; Palais Galliera, Paris, 5 December 1961, lot A, as Albertinelli. Anonymous sale; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 1962, as Albertinelli. Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 8 December 1993, lot 53, as Albertinelli, where acquired by the present owner.