LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on poplar panel

Measurements:

70.75 in. (179.70 cm.) (height) by 58.15 in. (147.70 cm.) (width)

Literature:

W. Buchanan,. Memoirs of painting: with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the great masters into England since the French Revolution , London 1824, vol. I, p. 47, letters 57 and 60;. Fettercairn House inventory, 1917 (as Andrea del Sarto; Dining Room);. Fettercairn House inventory, 1930 (as Andrea del Sarto; Dining Room);. H. Brigstocke,. William Buchanan and the 19th Century Art Trade: 100 Letters to his Agents in London and Italy , London 1982, pp. 27 and 497 (as a copy of Raphael's St. John the Baptist

Provenance:

Carlo Sanquirico, Milan;. Acquired from the above by James Irvine on behalf of Sir William Forbes, 7th Baronet of Pitsligo (1773-1828), of Fettercairn, Kincardineshire, 27 June 1827, in Milan, for 215 Louis (the seal of the Accademia di Milano affixed to the reverse);. By descent to his son Sir John Stuart Hepburn-Forbes, 8th Baronet of Pitsligo (1804-1866);. By whom offered in the sale of pictures purchased by the late Mr Irvine for the late Sir William Forbes, Bart., London, Rainy, 2 June 1842, lot 26, bought in (as Andrea del Sarto, after Raphael);. By inheritance to his son-in-law Charles Trefusis, 20th Baron Clinton (1834-1904);. Thence by descent to the present owner