LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on panel

Measurements:

29.92 in. (76.00 cm.) (height) by 20.79 in. (52.80 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters, 1875, no. 185 (as Filippo Lippi), lent by Graham; London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters, 1895, no. 151 (as Florentine School), lent by Benson; Manchester, City Art Gallery, Loan Exhibition of the Benson Collection of Old Italian Masters, April 27 - September 3, 1927, no. 70.

Literature:

Catalogue of Pictures Ancient and Modern [Graham Collection], London 1882, p. 10, cat. no. 213 (as Filippo Lippi); G. Gronau, in Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, vol. XVIII, 1895, p. 228; A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912, London 1913, vol. I, p. 347 (as Florentine School), and vol. II, p. 710 (as Filippo Lippi); Catalogue of Italian Pictures at 16 South Street, Park Lane, London and Buckhurst in Sussex, collected by Robert and Evelyn Benson, London 1914, p. 33, cat. no. 18 (as Fra Diamante); Loan Exhibition of the Benson Collection of Old Italian Masters, exhibition catalogue, Manchester 1927, p. 24, no. 70; B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Florentine School, vol. I, London 1963, p. 59 (as Fra Diamante).

Provenance:

William Graham (1817-1885), 35 Grosvenor Place, London, before 1882 (as Filippo Lippi); His deceased sale, London, Christie's, April 8, 1886, lot 340 (as Filippo Lippi); Acquired from the above by Robert Henry Benson (1850-1929), London, in whose collection it remained until at least 1895 (as Fra Diamante); With Duveen Brothers, Paris (as School of Filippo Lippi); By whom sold to Commendatore Paolo Gerli, Milan, on September 4, 1934, for 125,000 francs; Purchased from the above by a Swiss private collector in 1936; Thence by descent until recently.