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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--unframed
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--unframed
45¾ x 35¾in. (116.2 x 90.8cm.)
Provenance
Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino; his sale, Stanley, London, May 14-16, 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.
His son, Sir George Lindsay Holford; (+) Christie's, London, July 15, 1927, lot 3 as Bronzino (to Strauss).
with E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York.
Caroline G. Dotty; (+) Christie's, New York, Jan. 11, 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.
His son, Sir George Lindsay Holford; (+) Christie's, London, July 15, 1927, lot 3 as Bronzino (to Strauss).
with E. and A. Silberman Galleries, New York.
Caroline G. Dotty; (+) Christie's, New York, Jan. 11, 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, Jan. 8-29, 1939, No. 14 as Bronzino (lent by A. and E. Silberman Galleries).
Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Fine Art, The Art of the Medici, Oct. 6-Nov. 26, 1939 as Bronzino (lent by A. and E. Silberman galleries).
Michigan, The Flint Institute of Art, Feb. 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, Jan. 8-29, 1939, No. 14 as Bronzino (lent by A. and E. Silberman Galleries).
Maryland, Baltimore Museum of Fine Art, The Art of the Medici, Oct. 6-Nov. 26, 1939 as Bronzino (lent by A. and E. Silberman galleries).
Michigan, The Flint Institute of Art, Feb. 1941, and Kalamazoo Institute of Art, March 1941, Six Centuries of Paintings, No. 8 as Bronzino.