Details
Benvenuto Tisi, il Garofalo (1481-1559)
The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Saint John the Baptist in a wooded, River Landscape
on panel
12 3/8 x 10 5/8in. (31.5 x 27.2cm.)
The Holy Family with Saint Elizabeth and the Infant Saint John the Baptist in a wooded, River Landscape
on panel
12 3/8 x 10 5/8in. (31.5 x 27.2cm.)
Provenance
Miss Sarah Rogers; on her death in 1854 bequeathed to her brother
Samuel Rogers, the poet (1763-1855); (+) Christie's, 2 May 1856 (=5th day), lot 556, as 'Garofalo - The Riposo ... A lovely composition, coloured in a beautiful golden tone' (98gns. to Campbell)
William Henry Grenfell (1855-1945), created Baron Desborough in 1905, Taplow Court, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, by 1894
His daughter, Imogen, Viscountess Gage, Firle Place, Sussex; sold by Agnew's on her behalf in 1954
Samuel Rogers, the poet (1763-1855); (+) Christie's, 2 May 1856 (=5th day), lot 556, as 'Garofalo - The Riposo ... A lovely composition, coloured in a beautiful golden tone' (98gns. to Campbell)
William Henry Grenfell (1855-1945), created Baron Desborough in 1905, Taplow Court, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, by 1894
His daughter, Imogen, Viscountess Gage, Firle Place, Sussex; sold by Agnew's on her behalf in 1954
Literature
G. F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, 1854, II, p.270, as Garofalo 'a genuine and pleasing picture'
E. Jacobsen, Die Gemäldegalerie im Ateneo zu Ferrara, Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, 1900, p.367, as 'attributable to Ortolano'
S. Reinach, Répertoire de Peintures du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance (1280-1580), I, 1905, illustrated with an engraving p.339, as 'Attributed to Ortolano'
G. Frabetti, L'Ortolano, 1966, pp.19 and 52, no.29, and pl.23, as Ortolano
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, 1968, I, p.156, as an early work by Garofalo
E. Jacobsen, Die Gemäldegalerie im Ateneo zu Ferrara, Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, 1900, p.367, as 'attributable to Ortolano'
S. Reinach, Répertoire de Peintures du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance (1280-1580), I, 1905, illustrated with an engraving p.339, as 'Attributed to Ortolano'
G. Frabetti, L'Ortolano, 1966, pp.19 and 52, no.29, and pl.23, as Ortolano
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, 1968, I, p.156, as an early work by Garofalo
Exhibited
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Works of the School of Ferrara-Bologna 1440-1540, 1894, pp.XXVI, XXVIII, 15, no.45, and 54, and pl.XIV, as 'Ascribed to Ortolano'