Manner of Cosimo Rosselli

Art market, Lucerne, 1961;

John and Johanna Bass, New York, by April 1961;

By whom donated to the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, 1963 (inv. no. 63.3).

F. Zeri and B.B. Frederickson, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge 1972, pp. 221, 595 (as Florentine School, 16th century);

The John and Johanna Bass Collection at Miami Beach, Florida, Miami 1973, p. 6, cat. no. 3 (as Attributed to the School of Verrocchio);

E. Fahy, Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandajo, New York and London 1976, p. 203 (as the Master of the Villamagna Altarpiece, "Replica, or perhaps a modern copy, of the Rotterdam Madonna");

P.L. Roberts, Corpus of Early Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, The South, A. Ladis (ed.), Athens 2009, vol. II, p. 518, reproduced (as School of Verrocchio).

Likely produced around the turn of the twentieth century in conscious evocation of a Renaissance prototype, this painting closely relates to a work in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (inv. no. 2549), alternatively attributed to the Master of the Borghese Tondo and to Davide Ghirlandaio. Faithfully replicating the composition, the present work reflects a sustained modern fascination with Florentine devotional imagery.