LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on a single poplar panel, a tondo

Size Notes:

diameter

Literature:

Ashburnham Inventory, 1830; A List of pictures in Ashburnham house in Dover Street made by the fourth Earl just before his death in 1878, London 1878, where listed as from Villa Pasquale; B. Berenson, The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, New York 1900, p.109 (as Botticini); B. Berenson, The Florentine Painters of the Renaissance with an Index to their Works, New York 1909, p. 120 (as Botticini); R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, The Hague 1931, vol. XIII, p. 416, note 1 (as Botticini); B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. A list of the principal artists and their works with an index of places. Florentine School, London 1963, vol. I, p. 39, vol. II, reproduced plate 1067 (as Botticini); M. Bacci, Piero di Cosimo, Milan 1966, p. 117 (as Maestro delle Adorazioni); L. Venturini, in M. Gregori (ed.), Maestri e botteghe. Pittura a Firenze alla fine del Quattrocento, Milan 1992, pp. 153, 245, reproduced p. 156, fig. 15 (as Botticini); L. Venturini, Francesco Botticini, Florence 1994, pp. 125-126, 206, cat. no. 70, reproduced p. 206, fig.109 (as Botticini).

Provenance:

Possibly Villa Pasquale; George Ashburnham, 3rd Earl of Ashburnham (1760-1830); Thence by descent in the Ashburnham collection; Until sold by the Trustees of the Ashburnham Settled Estates and The Executors of Lady Catherine Ashburnham, London, Sotheby's, 24 June 1953, lot 17, for £1,600 to Arthur Tooth & Sons, London; From whom acquired by the father of the present owner.