LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel, a tondo

Size Notes:

diameter 88.3 cm.

Literature:

M. Bacci, . L'opera completa di Piero di Cosimo , Milan 1976, p. 101, cat. no. 77, reproduced (under 'Opere attribuite');. . E. Capretti and A. Forlani Tempesti, . Piero di Cosimo: Catalogo Completo , Florence 1995, p. 143, cat. no. A4, reproduced (under 'Appendix A. Opere derivate, di attribuzione incerta', known to the authors only from photographs);. . D. Geronimus,. Piero di Cosimo, Visions beautiful and strange , New Haven and London 2006, pp. 19-20, fig. 9, reproduced in colour and p. 290, note 52 (as an autograph work);. . D. Geronimus,. Piero di Cosimo, The Poetry of Painting in Renaissance Florence , exhibition catalogue, Washington 2015, pp. 137-38, under cat. no. 13 and n. 5 (as Piero di Cosimo

Provenance:

Belli e Della Bruna collection, Florence (according to a label on the reverse);. . With Testa, Florence;. . Pazzagli collection, Florence;. . Antonini collection, Paris, by 1936,;. . European private collection;. . By whom sold, New York, Sotheby's, 26 January 2006, lot 37, for $330,000;. . Subsequently acquired by the present owner by private treaty sale in 2012