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Portrait of Cosimo de Medici I, half-length, wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece
Details
Circle of Angelo di Cosimo Allori, il Bronzino (1577-1621)
Portrait of Cosimo de Medici I, half-length, wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece
oil on panel
45¾ x 35¾in. (116.2 x 90.8cm.)
Portrait of Cosimo de Medici I, half-length, wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece
oil on panel
45¾ x 35¾in. (116.2 x 90.8cm.)
Provenance
Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino; his sale, Stanley, London, 14-6 May, 1816, lot 56, as Bronzino and 'wearing the insignia of the Order of St. Stefano'.
with William Buchanan, 1840, from whom purchased by Robert Staynor Holford (1808-92), Dorchester House, London, and Westonbirt in Gloucestershire, and by inheritance to
his son, Sir George Lindsay Holford; (+) sale, Christie's, London, 15 July 1927, lot 3, as Bronzino (to Strauss).
with E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York.
Caroline G. Dotty; (+) sale, Christie's, New York, 11 January 1989, lot 208 ($26,000).
with William Buchanan, 1840, from whom purchased by Robert Staynor Holford (1808-92), Dorchester House, London, and Westonbirt in Gloucestershire, and by inheritance to
his son, Sir George Lindsay Holford; (+) sale, Christie's, London, 15 July 1927, lot 3, as Bronzino (to Strauss).
with E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York.
Caroline G. Dotty; (+) sale, Christie's, New York, 11 January 1989, lot 208 ($26,000).
Literature
W. Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, 1824, II, p. 275, as Bronzino and wearing the order of St. Stefano.
G.F. Waagen, Art Treasures in Great Britain, 1854, II, p. 195.
A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912, I, 1913, pp. 109-10.
The Holford Collection, Dorchester House, 1927, p. 48, no. 101, pl. 91, as Bronzino.
F. M. Kelly in Apollo, May 1932, 15, no. 89, p. 242 illustrated.
K. Langedijk, The Portraits of the Medici, 15th-18th Centuries, I, 1981, p. 419 (describing the measurements as 117 x 54.5cm.).
G.F. Waagen, Art Treasures in Great Britain, 1854, II, p. 195.
A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912, I, 1913, pp. 109-10.
The Holford Collection, Dorchester House, 1927, p. 48, no. 101, pl. 91, as Bronzino.
F. M. Kelly in Apollo, May 1932, 15, no. 89, p. 242 illustrated.
K. Langedijk, The Portraits of the Medici, 15th-18th Centuries, I, 1981, p. 419 (describing the measurements as 117 x 54.5cm.).
Exhibited
London, British Institution, 1841, no. 9 as Bronzino (lent by R.S. Holford).
Manchester, Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, 1857, no. 181 as Bronzino (lent by R.S. Holford).
London, Royal Academy, Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1887, no. 125 as Bronzino (lent by R.S. Holford).
Houston, Museum of Fine Art, Exhibition of European Masters from the 15th Century, 8-29 January 1939, no. 14, as Bronzino (lent by A. and E. Silberman Galleries).
Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Fine Art, The Art of the Medici, 6 October-26 November 1939, as Bronzino (lent by A. and E. Silberman galleries).
Michigan, The Flint Institute of Art, February 1941, and Kalamazoo Institute of Art, March 1941, Six Centuries of Paintings, no. 8, as Bronzino.
Manchester, Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, 1857, no. 181 as Bronzino (lent by R.S. Holford).
London, Royal Academy, Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1887, no. 125 as Bronzino (lent by R.S. Holford).
Houston, Museum of Fine Art, Exhibition of European Masters from the 15th Century, 8-29 January 1939, no. 14, as Bronzino (lent by A. and E. Silberman Galleries).
Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Fine Art, The Art of the Medici, 6 October-26 November 1939, as Bronzino (lent by A. and E. Silberman galleries).
Michigan, The Flint Institute of Art, February 1941, and Kalamazoo Institute of Art, March 1941, Six Centuries of Paintings, no. 8, as Bronzino.