Lot 238
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Provenance
A Swiss Nobleman, Albenga; sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 22 Jan. 1931
Literature
P. d'Achiardi, Sebastiano del Piombo, 1908, pp.76-7 and fig.46
J. A. Crowe and G. B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in North Italy, ed. T. Borenius, 1912, III, p.220, note I
G. Gombosi, Sebastiano del Piombo, in The Thieme-Becker Künstler-Lexikon, XXVII, 1933, p.73
L. Dussler, Sebastiano del Piombo, 1942, p.137, under no.38, copy (a)
R. Pallucchini, Sebastian Viniziano, 1944, p.165
J. Neumann, Vzácné dilo Sebastiana del Piombo, Umeni, X, 1962
A. E. Safarik, Contributi all'opera di Sebastiano del Piombo, Arte Veneta, XVII, 1963
M. Lucco, L'opera completa di Sebastiano del Piombo, 1980, p.115, under no.65, and fig.65b

Lot Essay

In a 19th century carved and gilded Florentine leaf frame.

The present picture was published as autograph by D'Achiardi, Borenius, Gombosi, Pallucchini and Safarik and is sold with transcripts of certificates by A. L. Mayer, dated 5 Sept. 1930, and W. Suida, dated 8 Aug. 1937. The original, delivered to Pope Clement VII early in 1525, was discovered in the Národni Galerie, Prague, and published by Safarik in 1963 (see M. Hirst, Sebastiano del Piombo, 1981, pl.128); it omits the rose depicted in the present painting

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