LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

25.98 in. (66.00 cm.) (height) by 17.91 in. (45.50 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Literature:

K. Badt, Andrea Solario. Sein Leben und seine Werke, Leipzig 1914, p. 195 (wrongly assuming that the present painting and the Philadelpha one are likely to be the same; as a late replica of the Leipzig one); . H. Voss, Galeriewerk der Sammlung Cremer, Dortmund, Dortmund 1914, p. 7 (as Solario);. B. Sweeny, John G. Johnson Collection. Catalogue of Italian Paintings, Philadelphia 1966, p. 74, under no. 274 (under Versions);. D. A. Brown, Andrea Solario, Milan 1987, pp. 212-13, under no. 50, and as no. 50i (under Versions of the Philadelphia picture).

Provenance:

M. de Somzée, Rue des Palais, Brussels;. His sale (‘Les Collections de Somzée’), Brussels, Fievez, 24 May 1904, lot 397 (as by Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio);. Geheimrat Josef Cremer, Dortmund, by 1914;. His sale, Berlin, Wertheim, 29 May 1929, lot 130 (as by Andrea Solario), when acquired by an ancestor of the present owner (by whom offered in these Rooms, 9 July 2014, lot 24, as Studio of Andrea Solario).