LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

58.50 in. (148.60 cm.) (height) by 47.91 in. (121.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed and dated 'F.Barto. or is pred. floren 1516' (centre right)

Exhibited:

Royal Academy, London, Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters, 1875, no. 176. Royal Academy, London, Exhibition of the Works of the Old Masters, 1902, no. 73. Royal Academy, London, Italian Art, 1930, no. 380. Royal Academy, London, Italian Art and Britain, 1960, no. 106. London, Kenwood, The Iveagh Bequest, on loan, 1960-5. Jersey Museum Service, Hidden Treasures of Jersey Exhibition, 1992.

Literature:

J.C. Robinson, in Art Journal, May 1885, p. 135. B. Berenson, The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, New York and London, 1896, p. 103; 2nd ed., 1908, p. 113. J.P. Richter, in Art Journal, March 1902, pp. 83-5,. L'Arte, V, 1902, p. 177, illustrated. B. Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, London, 1903, under no. 1787; 2nd ed., Chicago, 1939, II, p. 251, under no. 1787. K. Knapp, Fra Bartolommeo della Porta und die Schule von San Marco, Halle, 1903, pp. 187-9, 263, and pl 91. T. Borenius, ed., A Catalogue of the Collection of Paintings of Sir Frederick Cook, Bt., Italian Schools, London, 1913, no. 29. J. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcasselle, A History of Painting in Italy, London, 1914, (T. Borenius, ed.), p. 89, note 2. H. van der Gabelentz, Fra Barolommeo und die Florentiner Renaissance, Leipzig, 1922, I, p. 181, fig. 24; II, pp. 24 and 49, under nos. 13 and 80. A. Venturi, Storia dell'Arte Italiana, Milan, IX/I, 1925, p. 388, fig. 246. Lord Balniel and K. Clark, A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art, 1930, London, 1931, no. 321. B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 48. S.J. Freedberg, Painting of the High Renaissance in Florence and Rome, 1961, I, pp. 439-40; II, pl. 545. C. Gould, National Gallery Catalogues, The Sixteenth-Century Italian Schools, London, 1962, p. 15, under no. 1694. B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the High Renaissance: Florentine School, London, 1963, I, p. 24. C. Fischer, catalogue of the exhibition, Fra Bartolommeo, Master Draughtsman of the High Renaissance, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, 1990-1991, pp. 310-1, fig. 206. S. Padovani, in the catalogue of the exhibition, L'età di Savonarola, Fra Bartolommeo e la Scuola di San Marco, Florence, Palazzo Pitti, 1996, pp. 111 and 113, under no. 24. E. Danziger, 'The Cook Collection, its founder and its inheritors', The Burlington Magazine, CXLVI, July 2004, p. 448, pl. 9.

Provenance:

Sir Francis Cook, 1st Bt. (1817-1901), Doughty House, Richmond, by 1875, and by descent to his great-grandson, Sir Francis Cook, 4th Bt., by whom given to Brenda, Lady Cook.