LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

56.57 in. (143.70 cm.) (height) by 40.94 in. (104.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed u.c. in monogram with interlocking 'A's [Andrea d'Agnolo]

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy of Arts,. Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters , 1875, no. 168;. Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie, Meisterweke aus badenwürttembergischen Privatbesitz , 9 October 1958 - 10 January 1959, no. 174, reproduced

Literature:

Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond, belonging to Sir Frederick Cook Bart., Visconde de Monserrate , London 1907, p. 14 (as hanging in the Entrance Lobby to the Long Gallery; school of Andrea del Sarto);. H. Cook (ed.), A Catalogue of the Paintings at Doughty House, Richmond, and Elsewhere in the Collection of Sir Frederick Cook, Bt. , 3 vols; T. Borenius, Italian Schools , vol. I, London 1913, p. 39, no. 32 (as hanging in the Entrance Lobby to the Long Gallery; as school of Andrea del Sarto, one of several versions); . M.W. Brockwell, Abridged Catalogue of the Pictures at Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey, in the Collection of Sir Herbert Cook, Bart , London 1932, p. 84, no. 32 (as hanging in the Billiard Room; as Andrrea del Sarto, an excellent copy of an apparently 'lost' original); . S.J. Freedberg, Andrea del Sarto, Catalogue Raisonné , Cambridge, Mass., 1963, pp. 70-71 (listed twice under copies and derivations, firstly under Kreuzlingen as considerably abraded; by a skilled painter of the midsixteenth century; and secondly under Richmond without comment on authorship); . J. Shearman, Andrea del Sarto , Oxford 1965, vol. II, p. 235, no.45(i) (listed under copies, as an early, perhaps studio, replica, in poor condition

Provenance:

Mme de Meiller collection, 1875;. With Colnaghi; . Sir Francis Cook, 1st Bt, Visconde de Monserrate (1817-1901), Doughty House, Richmond, Surrey (no. 32); . By descent to his son Sir Frederick Cook, 2nd Bt (1844-1920), Doughty House; . By descent to his son Sir Herbert Cook, 3rd Bt (1868-1939), Doughty House; . By descent to his son Sir Francis Ferdinand Maurice Cook, 4th Bt (1907-78), until probably the mid-1950s; . Munich art market; . Acquired by the father of the present owner by 1958; . Thence by descent