LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel, tondo

Size Notes:

diameter

Markings:

inscribed 'A Messer Giorgio Vasari Iou Fiorenza' (on the reverse)

Literature:

B. Berenson, Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, London and New York, 1909, (3rd ed.), p. 165. A. Venturi, Storia dell'Arte Italiana, VII/I, Milan, 1911, p. 173. J.A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in Italy, ed. T. Borenius, VI, London, 1914, p. 48. T. Borenius, 'Two Tondos by Piero di Cosimo in Sweden', The Burlington Magazine, XXXVI, March, 1920, p. 103, pl. 1. R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, XIII, The Hague, 1931, pp. 356 and 380, as 'Piero di Cosimo'. P. Morselli, 'Piero di Cosimo; Saggio di un Catalogo delle Opera', L'Arte, XXIII, p. 84 (under Stockholm), p. 89 (under Aynard). M. Bacci, Piero di Cosimo, Milan, 1966, p. 60, as 'opera incerta'. M. Bacci, L'Opera Completa di Piero di Cosimo, Milan, 1976, no. 72. E. Capretti, Piero di Cosimo, Catalogo Completo, Florence, 1996, p. 143, no. A2 (under 'opere derivate, di attribuzione incerta').

Provenance:

J. Ley Jackson; Christie's, London, 9-10 February 1877, lot 159, as 'Luini' (4gns. to Flack). Edouard Aynard, Lyon; sale, Paris, 1 December 1913, lot 61. Dr Osvald Sirèn, Stockholm. Walter S. M. Burns, North Mymms Park, Hertfordshire, and by descent to General Sir George Burns; Christie's, London, 29 June 1979, lot 50, as 'Attributed to Piero di Cosimo' (£9,500).