Workshop of Andrea Verrocchio

Baroness Giuliana Corsini Ricasoli (1859-1959), Florence, by 1932 (as Pollaioulo);

Thence by descent within the family—who consigned the painting with Duveen, New York, in the 1930s—until at least 2014;

With Galleria Moretti, 2015;

From whom acquired by the present collector, by 2016.

New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio’s Studio, 29 June – 7 October 2018 (lent from the Alana Collection).

F. Zeri and E.E. Gardner, Italian Paintings, A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Florentine School, New York 1971, p. 116 (as Master of San Miniato);

G. Dalli Regoli, in Il ‘Maestro di San Miniato,’ Lo stato degli studi, i problem, le risposte della filologia, G. Dalli Regoli (ed.), Pisa 1988, pp. 97-98, reproduced figs. 61, 62, 64 (as Florentine School, 15^th century);

E. Fahy, “The Argonaut Master,” in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 114, no. 6 (December 1989), p. 296 (as Master of the Argonauts);

C.B. Strehlke, “Early Italian Works from Swiss Collections, Lugano,” in Burlington Magazine 133, no. 1060 (July 1991), p. 468, under no. 103 (as Follower of Botticelli);

N. Pons, “Una bottega fiorentina di pittura nella seconda metà del XV secolo: Jacopo del Sellaio e compagni,” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Rome, La Sapienza 1992, pp. 31-34, 357, cat. no. 109, reproduced fig. 2 (as probably young Jacopo del Sellaio);

C. Daly, “A New Fragment of the Carmine Altarpiece and Other Works by Jacopo del Sellaio,” in Commentari d’arte 20, nos. 58-59 (September-December 2014), pp. 54, 58 note 11 (as Master of the Argonauts, perhaps identifiable as young Jacopo del Sellaio);

C. Dury, Peintures italiennes et hispaniques, Collections du Musée de Tessé XIV^e-XVIII^e siècles, Le Mans 2016, p. 76;

L. Kanter, Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio’s Studio, Early Paintings and New Attributions, exhibition catalogue, New Haven 2018, pp. 93-97, reproduced fig. 72 (as Verrocchio, circa 1465-1470);

D. Civettini, “La ‘primavera’ di Jacopo del Sellaio,” M.A. thesis, University of Florence 2019/2020, pp. 91-94, reproduced fig. 53 (as Jacopo del Sellaio, circa 1472-1473);

D. Civettini, “L’enigma di Arundel Castle,” in Nuovi studi 26, no. 26 (2021), p. 47 note 15 (as early Jacopo del Sellaio).