Biagio d'Antonio

Francis Richard Charteris (1818-1914), 10th Earl of Wemyss, Gosford House, Edinburgh, by 1886;

Probably thence by descent to his son, Sir Evan Edward Charteris (1864-1940), London;

With Wildenstein & Cie., Paris, by 1910 (as Fiorenzo di Lorenzo);

From whom acquired by Maurice Edmond Karl de Rothschild (1881-1957), Paris, 1911;

From whom acquired by Wildenstein & Cie., Paris, 1914;

From whom acquired by Mrs. Benjamin Thaw (née Elma Ellsworth Dows; 1861-1931), Pittsburgh and Paris, 1916;

Offered at her anonymous sale (“Collection de Madame X…”), Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 15 May 1922, lot 22 (as Fiorenzo di Lorenzo);

With Duveen Brothers, New York, by 1923 and until at least 1924;

William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951), New York, by 1932;

Princess Doanna Chempacak (née Barbara Woolworth Hutton; 1912-1979), Santa Monica, by 1958;

By whom sold (“Property from a Private Collector”), New York, Parke Bernet, 7 June 1978, lot 250 (as Biagio d'Antonio);

Where acquired by Dino Fabri, Paris, for $52,500;

From whom acquired by Harari & Johns, London, by 1991;

With Derek Johns, London, by 1998;

From whom acquired by the present collector, 1999. 

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters, Winter 1886, no. 175 (lent by the Earl of Wemyss);

New York, F. Kleinberger Galleries, A Loan Exhibition of Italian Primitives in Aid of American War Relief, November 1917, no. 80 (lent by Mrs. Benjamin Thaw);

New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Loan Exhibition in Honour of Royal Cortissoz, 1 – 20 December 1941, no. 7 (lent anonymously). 

Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters, exhibition catalogue, London 1886, p. 37, cat. no. 175 (as Italian School, 15th century); 

O. Sirén and M.W. Brockwell, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Italian Primitives, in Aid of the American War Relief, exhibition catalogue, New York 1917, p. 201, cat. no. 80, reproduced (as Fiorenzo di Lorenzo);

“Paris: Galerie Georges Petit,” in Belvedere, Illustrierte Zeitschrift für Kunstsammler 1 (1922), p. 140, reproduced pl. LXIX (as Fiorenzo di Lorenzo);

P. Dirion, "Les grandes ventes de la saison: Collection de Mme. X. Thaw," in La Renaissance 5 (1922), pp. 350-351, reproduced (as Fiorenzo di Lorenzo);

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford 1932, p. 105 (as early Botticelli);

C. Gamba, Botticelli, Milan 1936, reproduced pl. 11 (as possibly Botticelli);

Mostra di Melozzo e del quattrocento Romagnolo, exhibition catalogue, R. Longhi and L. Becherucci (eds.), Bologna 1938, p. 87 (as Biagio d'Antonio, circa 1470);

Loan Exhibition in Honour of Royal Cortissoz and His 50 Years of Criticism, exhibition catalogue, New York 1941, p. 12, cat. no. 7 (as Botticelli);

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, vol. I, Oxford 1963, p. 37 (as Botticelli [?]);

R. Salvini, All the Paintings of Botticelli, vol. I, Norwich 1965, pp. 16, 39-40, 53, reproduced pl. XVIII (as Botticelli);

G. Mandel, The Complete Paintings of Botticelli, Milan 1967, p. 87, cat. no. 19, reproduced (as Botticelli);

R. Lightbown, Sandro Botticelli, London 1978, vol. II, p. 160, cat. no. 32 (under “Other paintings attributed to Botticelli or his school”);

E. Samuels, Bernard Berenson: The Making of a Legend, Cambridge 1987, p. 328;

N. Pons, Botticelli, Catalogo completo, Milan 1989, p. 103, cat. no. 167, reproduced (under “Opere di incerta attribuzione”);

Five Centuries of Old Master Paintings, exhibition catalogue, London 1991, n.p., cat. no. 2 (as Biagio d'Antonio);

Old Master Paintings, exhibition catalogue, London [1998], n.p., reproduced (as Biagio d'Antonio);

R. Bartoli, Biagio d'Antonio, Milan 1999, pp. 191-192, cat. no. 29, reproduced (as Biagio d'Antonio);

A. Bliznukov, in The Alana Collection, Italian Paintings and Sculptures from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century, M. Boskovits (ed.), Florence 2011, vol. II, pp. 84-88, cat. no. 13, reproduced (as Biagio d’Antonio).