Lot Essay
In a variant at Schwerin, a portrait of a youth takes the place of the girl playing the organ on the left (von Hadeln, op. cit., p. 19,
fig. IV). The central figure was also used in a composition in which she is accompanied only by a (different) putto holding a musical score; four versions are known, at Budapest (Catalogue, 1991,
loc. cit., illustrated), offered at Sotheby's, New York,
19 May 1994, lot 26, in the Galleria Colonna, Rome (Safarik,
loc. cit., no. 119, illustrated, as a copy) and offered at Christie's, Rome, 16 November 1987, lot 132 (as Pietro Damini).
The present picture was attributed to Domenico Brusasorci, to whom Berenson had attributed the variant at Budapest (B. Berenson, North Italian Painters of the Renaissance, New York and London, 1907,
p. 177), until von Hadeln recognized it as the work of Micheli.
fig. IV). The central figure was also used in a composition in which she is accompanied only by a (different) putto holding a musical score; four versions are known, at Budapest (Catalogue, 1991,
loc. cit., illustrated), offered at Sotheby's, New York,
19 May 1994, lot 26, in the Galleria Colonna, Rome (Safarik,
loc. cit., no. 119, illustrated, as a copy) and offered at Christie's, Rome, 16 November 1987, lot 132 (as Pietro Damini).
The present picture was attributed to Domenico Brusasorci, to whom Berenson had attributed the variant at Budapest (B. Berenson, North Italian Painters of the Renaissance, New York and London, 1907,
p. 177), until von Hadeln recognized it as the work of Micheli.