BONIFAZIO DE PITATI, called BONIFAZIO VERONESE* (1487-c.1553)

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BONIFAZIO DE PITATI, called BONIFAZIO VERONESE* (1487-c.1553)

Portrait of a Lady, standing three-quarter length, wearing a red velvet dress with white sleeves decorated with red ribbons, holding a handkerchief, beside a table before a raised architectural niche, a landscape beyond

oil on canvas
43 3/8 x 35½in. (110.2 x 90.2cm.)

Provenance

George Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu of the 2nd creation (d. 1790), Montagu House, Whitehall, London, as Giorgione, and by descent through his daughter Elizabeth, wife of Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buccleuch to the 8th Duke of Buccleuch; sale, Christie's, London, Nov. 1, 1946, lot 89 as Lotto (320 gns. to G. Bellisi)
with Mario Bellini, Florence, as Moretto da Brescia, until November 1953
J. Paul Getty, Sutton Place, Guildford, Surrey by whom bequeathed to the museum in 1978

Literature

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, 1957, I, p.44, as 'Bonifazio De'Pitati, called Veronese?'
J.P. Getty, The Joys of Collecting, 1965, pp. 31, 100, illustrated p. 101

Exhibited

Manchester, Manchester City Art Gallery, Between Renaissance and Baroque, March 10- April 6, 1965, pp. 18-19, no. 39, pl. III, as attributed to Bonifazio Veronese

Lot Essay

The collection at Montagu House was, from the mid eighteenth century, one of the finest in London: in addition to major works by Leonardo, El Greco, Rembrandt and Murillo still in the Buccleuch Collection, it included such pictures as Rembrandt's Saskia as Flora and Rubens' Watering Place, both in the National Gallery, London, and Mantegna's Grisaille now in the Cincinnatti Art Museum