Rafaellino Botticini* (1477-after 1520)

The Holy Family

Details
Rafaellino Botticini* (1477-after 1520)
The Holy Family
oil on panel--a tondo
25in. (65.4cm.) diameter
Provenance
Rudolf Ergas, Florence.
Anon. Sale, Hugo Helbing, Munich, Nov. 24, 1931, lot 97.
Anon. Sale. Lempertz, Cologne, Nov. 14-6, 1963, lot 12.
Ruth S. Weir, by whom given to the museum in 1980.
Literature
Weltkunst, XXX, Oct. 1963, p. 25 as Fra Bartolomeo.
F. Zeri, in Gazette des Beaux Arts, Oct. 1968, LXXII, pp. 159-70.
E. Fahy, Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandajo, 1976, p. 213.

Lot Essay

We are grateful to Mr. Everett Fahy for confirming the attribution.