LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera on panel, unframed

Measurements:

6.73 in. (17.10 cm.) (height) by 16.26 in. (41.30 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Nottingham, Nottingham Castle, Midland Counties Art Museum (according to an undated label on the reverse, but not included in the 1878 catalogue of the Museum).

Literature:

H. Kiel, "Aus der Arbeit der Museen. Italien. Florenz.," in Pantheon, May-June 1968, p. 240; A. Padoa Rizzo, "Zanobi Macchiavelli miniatore?," in Scritti di storia dell'arte in onore di Roberto Salvini, Florence 1984, pp. 323-324, note 9.

Provenance:

William Graham (1817-1885), Grosvenor Place, London; His deceased sale, London, Christie's, 2-10 April 1886, as part of lot 182 (Unknown, Scenes from the Life of Saint Jerome), for 9 gns. to Lawrie; Presumably bought back by the family after the sale and thence by inheritance to Herbert Jekyll, later Colonel Sir Herbert Jekyll (1846-1932), husband to William Graham's daughter, Agnes Graham (according to a label on the reverse, which reads "Major Jekyll"); With Carlo de Carlo, Florence, by 1968; Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 10 July 1992, lot 42.