LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera and oil with gold on panel

Measurements:

25.28 in. (64.20 cm.) (height) by 18.39 in. (46.70 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Brussels, Musée royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Spring 1922. Kent, Leeds Castle, on loan, 1980-1990.

Literature:

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 450. B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Florentine School, London, 1963, I, p. 171; II, p. 7. P. Hendy, European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 1974, p. 180, under Pesellino's Madonna and Child as 'version no. 4'. P. Taylor, Dutch Flower Painting, exhibition catalogue, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, 1996, p. 10, fig. 3.

Provenance:

with Messrs. Dowdeswell, London. Adolphe Stoclet, Brussels, and by descent; Sotheby's, London, 11 July 1979, lot 19. British Rail Pension Fund collection; Sotheby's, London, 3 July 1996, lot 73 (£166,500 to William and Bernadette Berger).