Carlo Dolci

Marchese Carlo di Ottavio Gerini (1616–1673), Palazzo Gerini, Florence, by 1648, and recorded in his posthumous inventory of 1673, as ‘San Giorgio di mano di Carlino Dolci’;

Thence by descent to his son Marchese Pier Antonio Gerini (1651–1707), Palazzo Gerini, Florence;

Thence by descent to his second son Marchese Andrea Gerini (1691–1766), Palazzo Gerini, Florence, recorded in the inventory of 1733 from Via del Cocomero, as ‘un Angelo con lancia in mano’;

Thence by descent to his great-nephew Marchese Giovanni Gerini (1770–1825), Palazzo Gerini, Florence, until offered at his sale, Palazzo Gerini, Florence, 1 December 1825, lot 287 (‘S. Michele Arcangelo: mezzo busto al naturale’);

Where unsold and subsequently acquired, along with seventeen other paintings, for 870 zecchini, on 15 December 1825, by

Giovanni Rosini (1776–1855), Pisa, 1825;

Acquired in Florence, probably for a French collection, in 1827 (inscribed on a label formerly on the reverse: ‘ACHETTE A FLORENCE / EN 1827’);

Anonymous sale, Paris, Gros-Delettrez, Hotel Drouot, 30 May 1997, lot 5 (as Cesare Dandini);

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby’s, 30 January 1998, lot 43;

Where acquired.

Florence, Cloister of Santissima Annunziata, 1724 (two ‘ovati’ lent by Marchese Carlo Francesco di Pierantonio Gerini and brothers).

F. Baldassari, Un inedito ‘San Girolamo’ e altre aggiunte al catalogo di Carlo Dolci, exh. cat., Siena 2002, p. 12, reproduced in colour p. 11, fig. 10;

M. Di Dedda, ‘Volterrano, Rosa, Mehus, Dolci, Borgognone e la quadreria del Marchese Carlo Gerini (1616–1673): documenti e dipinti inediti’, in Storia dell'arte, vol. CXIX, no. 19, 2008, pp. 45, 59, and 75;

F. Baldassari, La pittura del seicento a Firenze, Turin 2009, p. 334;

M. Ingendaay, ‘I migliori pennelli’: I Marchesi Gerini mecenati e collezionisti nella Firenze barocca. Il palazzo e la galleria 1600-1825, Milan 2013, vol. I, pp. 160 and 240 n. 131, and vol. II, pp. 131 and 133;

F. Baldassari, Carlo Dolci. Complete catalogue of the paintings, Florence 2015, p. 134 and 342, no. 42, reproduced in colour.