LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on poplar panel

Measurements:

14.96 in. (38.00 cm.) (height) by 5.98 in. (15.20 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Exhibited:

London, The Walpole Gallery, The Cinquecento, 12 June-26 July 1991, no. 2.

Literature:

L. Pungileoni, Elogio storico di Raffaello Santi da Urbino, Urbino, 1829, p. 283.G. Melchiorri, ‘Grado di altare di Raffaello Santi da Urbino’, L’Ape italiana delle Belle Arti, I, I, Rome, 1835, pp. 37-9.G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, vol. II, 1854, p. 232.J.D. Passavant, Raphael d’Urbin et son père Giovanni Santi, Paris, II, 1860, p. 351.W. Burger, Trésors d’Art en Angleterre, Paris, 1865, p. 63.B. Berenson, The Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance, New York, 1909, p. 253.J.P. Richter, The Mond Collection, 1910, II, pp. 533 ff. and pl. 25.J.A. Crowe & G.B. Cavalscaselle, A History of Painting in Italy, V, 1914, p. 446.U. Gnoli, Pittori e miniatori nell’Umbria, Spoleto, 1923, p. 167.C. Bandini, Giovanni Spagna, Bergamo, 1928, p. 18.B. Berenson, Italian Paintings of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 545.R. van Marle, The development of Italian Schools of Painting, The Hague, 1933, IV, pp. 465-466.F. Perkins, in Thieme-Becker, Kunstlerlexicon, Leipzig, 1937, XXXI, p. 323.E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs de tous les temps et tous les pays, Paris, 1976, IX, p. 732. F. Gualdi Sabatini, Giovanni di Pietro detto Lo Spagna, Spoleto, 1984, I, pp. 155-7, no. 15, II, pl. 31.

Provenance:

Convento di Montesanto, Todi.G. di Bisenzio, Rome. Earl of Dudley, Witley Court. Ludwig Mond collection, London, and by inheritance toGwen, Lady Melchett, Southampton; Sotheby's, London, 24 March 1965, lot 97 (£7,500). The Property of Miss Patricia Barry; Sotheby's, London, 27 March 1968, lot 39 (£6,000).with Walpole Gallery, London, 1991.