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Property from the Estate of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island

Circle of Leonardo da Vinci

Madonna and Child

Estimate

100,000 - 150,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Estate of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island

Circle of Leonardo da Vinci

Madonna and Child


oil on panel

panel: 24 by 18 ⅛ in.; 61.0 by 46.0 cm

framed: 33 ⅛ by 27 ¼ in.; 84.1 by 69.2 cm

With G. Baslini, Milan (as Giampietrino);

Probably from whom acquired by Charles Brinsley Marlay (1831-1912), Saint Katherine's Lodge, Regent's Park, London, 1883;

By whom bequeathed to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1912 (inv. no. N.60);

By whom deaccessioned ("The Property of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Sold By Direction of the Syndics"), London, Sotheby's, 6 July 1966, lot 120 (as "Boltraffio");

Where acquired by Julius Weitzner, New York;

With Eugene V. Thaw, New York;

From whom acquired by Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. (1909-1988), Norfolk, Virginia, 1976;

His estate sale, New York, Sotheby's, 1 June 1989, lot 8 (as Boltraffio);

Where acquired by Umeda Art Boeki, Osaka;

Anonymous sale ("From a Private Collection"), London, Christie’s, 10 July 1992, lot 46 (as Boltraffio);

Where acquired by a private collector;

By whom sold ("Property from a Private European Collector"), London, Christie's, 3 December 2019, lot 12 (as Associate of Boltraffio);

Where acquired.

London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Pictures by Masters of the Milanese and Allied Schools of Lombardy, May - July 1898, no. 66 (lent by C. Brinsley Marlay);

Norfolk, Virginia, Chrysler Museum, long-term loan, 1976 - 1980 (lent by Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.).

Catalogue of Pictures by Masters of the Milanese and Allied Schools of Lombardy, exhibition catalogue, London 1898, p. 18, cat. no. 66 (as Artist Unknown);

B. Berenson, North Italian Painters of the Renaissance, New York and London 1907, p. 233 (as Giampietrino);

O. Sirén, "Early Italian Pictures at Cambridge," in Burlington Magazine 37, no. 213 (December 1920), p. 303, reproduced pl. IV(D) (as After Boltraffio);

W.G. Constable, Catalogue of Pictures in the Marlay Bequest, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridge 1927, pp. 44-45, cat. no. 60, reproduced pl. XII (as Milanese School, 15th-16th century);

B. Berenson, Italian Painters of the Renaissance, Oxford 1932, pp. 78, 229 (listed under both Bernardino de' Conti and Giampietrino);

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian & North Italian Schools, London 1968, vol. I, p. 47; vol. III, reproduced fig. 1399 (as Bernardino de' Conti);

C.H. Jordan, "Boltraffio on Loan," in Chrysler Museum Bulletin (August 1980), p. 2, reproduced (as Boltraffio);

Important Old Master Paintings, Within the Image, exhibition catalogue, New York 1990, p. 24, reproduced fig. 1 (as Boltraffio);

M.T. Fiorio, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, un pittore milanese nel lume di Leonardo, Milan 2000, p. 205 (as not Boltraffio).