The Madonna and Child with Saint Anne

Details

After Leonardo da Vinci
The Madonna and Child with Saint Anne
oil on vellum, laid onto board
15½ x 10¾ in. (39.4 x 27.3 cm.)

Provenance

The Barberini Palace, Rome, from which acquired for
The Hoare family, Stourhead, Wiltshire, and by descent at Stourhead to
Sir Henry Ainslie Hoare, Bt. (1824-1894); [The Stourhead Heirlooms Sale] Christie's, London, 2 June 1883, lot 54, as 'L. da Vinci' (70 gns. to Colnaghi, on behalf of Butler).
Charles Butler, Esq. (1822-1910), 3 Connaught Place, London; (+) Christie's, London, 25 May 1911, lot 110, as 'L. da Vinci (After)' (35 gns. to Agnew).
with Agnew's, London.
Ottilie, Viscountess Scarsdale; Christie's, London, 28 July 1938, lot 15, as 'Leonardo' (630 gns. to Neuen).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

After the picture in the Musèe du Louvre, Paris. The Louvre picture, thought to date from Leonardo's second Milanese period (1507-13), was brought to France by the artist himself, and was seen there in the manor house at Cloux by Cardinal Louis of Aragon. Given that provenance, it seems possible that the present copy was acquired for the Barberini collection during the exile in France of the nephews of Maffeo Barberini, Pope Urban VIII (1568-1644), following that Pontiff's death.

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