Lorenzo di Credi

John Rushout, 2nd Baron Northwick (1770–1859), Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham, recorded as hanging in the Platform Gallery, by 1854;

His posthumous sale, Cheltenham, Phillips, 26 July – 30 August 1859 (this lot: 3 August), lot 540 (as Masaccio, St George), for 190 guineas to Fenney;¹

Alexander Barker (c. 1797–1873), Hatfield, near Doncaster and 103 Piccadilly, London, by 1868;

Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1818–1874), Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire;  

By descent to his daughter Hannah de Rothschild, Countess of Rosebery (1851–1890), wife of Archibald, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers (in the Library);

By descent to their son (Albert) Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery (1882–1974), Mentmore Towers, until 1939; 

With Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York, by 1943;

Acquired by a private collector, circa 1948;

Thence by descent;

By whom sold (‘The Property of a Lady’), New York, Sotheby's, 12 January 1995, lot 62 (as Lorenzo di Credi);

Where acquired for a private collection;

Whence sold by private treaty to the present owner.

G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London 1854, vol. III, p. 196 (as Lorenzo di Credi, St George);

J. Rushout, Hours in Lord Northwick's Picture Galleries; being a catalogue with critical and descriptive notices of some of the principal paintings in the Thirlestaine House collection, Cheltenham 1858, p. 41, no. 246 (as Masaccio, St George);

J.A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle, A New History of Painting in Italy, London 1868, vol. III, p. 414; rev. ed. 1909, vol. III, p. 384 (as Lorenzo di Credi, in the collection of Alexander Barker, ‘figure of a saint with a banner and shield, all but life-size’);

Mentmore, Edinburgh 1883, p. 130, no. 37 (as a ‘Full-length figure’ by Lorenzo di Credi located in the Library);

H. de Rothschild, Mentmore, Edinburgh 1884, vol. II, p. 60, no. 37, reproduced;

C.J. Ffoulkes, ‘Le Esposizioni d'arte italiane a Londra’, in Archivio Storico dell'Arte, VII, 1894, p. 168 (as San Quirino?);

B. Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, London 1903, vol. II, p. 35, no. 675; London 1938 (rev. ed.), vol. II, p. 71, no. 675 (as unquestionably by Lorenzo, usually described as a St George);

S. Reinach, Répertoire de peintures du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance (1280–1580), Paris 1905, vol. I, p. 555, reproduced as line engraving (as attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, St George);

B. Berenson, Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, London 1909, p. 132 (as St George);

A. Venturi, Storia dell'arte Italiana, vol. VII, part I, Milan 1911, p. 818 (as St George);

A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813–1912, London 1914, vol. IV, p. 1865;

H. Bodmer, ‘Lorenzo di Credi’, in Old Master Drawings, XVI, March 1930, pp. 63–64, reproduced fig. 15 (as St George);

R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. XIII, The Hague 1931, p. 314 (as Lorenzo di Credi, St Quiricus);

E. Ricci, Mille Santi nell’Arte, 1931, pp. 549 and 550;

B. Degenhart, ‘Die Schüler des Lorenzo di Credi’, in Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst, vol. IX, 1932, pp. 98 and 160 (as school of Lorenzo di Credi, St George);

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford 1932, p. 297 (as Lorenzo di Credi, St Michael);

B. Berenson, I Disegni dei Pittori Fiorentini, Milan 1961, vol. II, p. 129, reproduced vol. III, fig. 144 (as Lorenzo di Credi’s so-called St Michael);

B. Berenson, Italian Paintings of the Renaissance: Florentine School, London 1963, vol. I, p. 115 (as St Michael);

G. Dalli Regoli, Lorenzo di Credi, Milan 1966, pp. 137–38, under no. 76; p. 166, under no. 144; and p. 180, no. 177, reproduced fig. 229 (as school of Lorenzo di Credi, St George, and as whereabouts unknown);

R.W. Brewer, A Study of Lorenzo di Credi, Florence 1970, pp. 53 and 54, reproduced p. 41, pl. IX (as St George, once the property of Lord Rosebery);

V. Birke and J. Kertész, Die italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina. Generalverzeichnis, vol. III, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 1995, p. 1682, no. 4870.

London, New Gallery, Exhibition of Early Italian Art from 1300–1500, 1893–94, p. 7, no. 35 (as St George);

Hartford Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Men in Arms, 2 February – 4 March 1943, no. 20 (as St Quiricus[?]).