LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on panel, in the elaborate carved and gilt wood Demidoff frame (with no. 46)

Measurements:

30.75 in. (78.11 cm.) (height) by 21.75 in. (55.25 cm.) (width)

Literature:

S. Avery-Quash, The Travel Notebooks of Sir Charles Eastlake, The Walpole Society 2011, p. 603, as 'Perugino? Madonna & Child' hanging at San Donato (quoting from Charles Eastlake's NG 22/30 notebook, 1862, folio 21r).

Provenance:

Gherardi collection, Florence; From which acquired by Anatole N. Demidoff (1812-1870), 1st Prince of San Donato, in 1836, and subsequently hung at the Palazzo di San Donato in Polverosa, Florence; François Nieuwenhuys, his deceased sale, Paris, Féral-Pillet, 28 April 1881, lot 15, for 11,500 francs (as Perugino); Possibly Lucile de Nolleval (according to a label on the reverse).