Giovanni Bellini and Workshop

Count Pio Reese, Rome;

From whom acquired, through Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1899 (inv. no. 8862);

From whom acquired by Peter A. Widener (1834-1915), Philadelphia, 1899 and until at least 1904, for £3,000;

Probably from whom acquired by Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), London, by 1907;

Offered at his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 15 June 1914, lot 2 (as Bellini), where bought in by the auctioneer, Jules Féral, at 92,000 ff.;

Anonymous sale ("Different Properties"), London, Christie's, 5 July 1920, lot 63 (as Giovanni Bellini);

Where acquired by David Croal Thomson (1855-1930), London, for £105;

A.G. Bennett;

From whom acquired by Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, 1927 (inv. no. 6645);

From whom acquired by Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878-1955), Rome and Florence, 1927;

Thence by inheritance within his family, Florence;

From whom acquired, by 1970.

London, Thomas Agnew & Sons, Twenty Selected Pictures by Italian Masters, June - July 1899, no. 1;

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Winter Exhibition, 7 January - 16 March 1907, no. 28 (lent by Charles Fairfax Murray);

Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Tiziano: Amor Sacro e Amor Profano, 22 March - 22 May 1995, no. 3 (lent by Stanley Moss);

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Tiziano/Rubens, Venus ante el espejo, 24 September 2002 - 26 January 2003, no. 5 (lent by Stanley Moss);

Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting, 17 October 2006 – 7 January 2007 (lent by Stanley Moss).

Twenty Selected Pictures by Italian Mas­ters, exhibition catalogue, London 1899, n.p., cat. no. 1 (as Bellini);

Exhibition of Works by The Old Masters, Winter Exhibition, exhibition catalogue, London 1907, p. 10, cat. no. 28 (as Bellini);

H. Cook, "Notizie d'Inghilterra," in L'arte 10, no. 2 (1907), p. 151 (as School of Bellini);

D.B. von Hadeln, "Veronese's Venus at Her Toi­let," in Burlington Magazine 54, no. 312 (March 1929), p. 115 (as Bellini);

G. Gronau, Giovanni Bellini: Des meisters Gemälde, Stuttgart 1930, p. 217, under cat. no. 176 (as Bellini);

A.L. M[ayer], "Ein neues Bellini-Buch," in Pantheon 8 (October 1931), p. 430, reproduced fig. 427 (as Bellini);

L. Dussler, Giovanni Bellini, Frankfurt 1935, p. 153 (as Workshop of Bellini);

C. Gamba, Giovanni Bellini, Milan 1937, p. 172 (as Bellini);

L. Dussler, Giovanni Bellini, Vienna 1949, pp. 65, 96, under cat. no. 115 (as an excellent subsequent version of the Vienna picture);

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Venetian School, London 1957, vol. I, p. 31 (as Workshop of Bellini);

R. Pallucchini, Giovanni Bellini, Milan 1959, p. 158 (as a replica with variants of the Vienna picture);

F. Heinemann, Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani, Venice 1962, vol. I, p. 75, cat. no. 265b (as perhaps Andrea Previtali);

S. Bottari, Tutta la pittura di Giovanni Bellini, Milan 1963, vol. II, p. 37, under cat. no. 156 (as a replica with variants of the Vienna picture);

T. Pignatti, L'opera completa di Giovanni Bellini, Milan 1969, p. 110, under cat. no. 210;

A. Tempestini, Giovanni Bellini: Catalogo completo, Florence 1992, p. 296, under cat. no. 104 (as a subsequent version of the Vienna picture);

M.G. Bernardini, in Tiziano: Amor Sacro e Amor Profano, exhibition catalogue, M.G. Bernardini (ed.), Rome 1995, pp. 242-243, cat. no. 3, reproduced (as Workshop of Bellini [Vincenzo Catena?]);

A. Tempestini, Giovanni Bellini, Milan 1997, p. 188 (as Girolamo da Santacroce after a design by Bellini);

F.C. Cremades, Tiziano/Rubens, Venus ante el espejo, exhibition catalogue, Madrid 2002, pp. 54, 93, cat. no. 5, reproduced (as Bellini and Vincenzo Catena);

S. Ferino-Pagden, in Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Painting, exhibition catalogue, D.A. Brown and S. Ferino-Pagden (eds.), New Haven and London 2006, p. 219, under cat. no. 41 (as Workshop of Bellini);

J. Anderson, "The Critical Reception of Giovanni Bellini as a Painter of Antiquity," in Grammatik der Kunstgeschichte: Sprachproblem und Regelwork im "Bild-Duskurs": Oskar Bätschmann zum 65. Geburtstag, H. Locher and P.J. Schneemann (eds.), Zurich 2008, H. Locher and P.J. Schneemann (eds.), p. 249, reproduced in infrared fig. 6 (as possibly Vettor Belliniano);

D.A. Brown, Giovanni Bellini: The Last Works, Milan 2019, pp. 229, 253 notes 48, 49, Appendix 1, pp. 311, 327 notes 90-95, reproduced fig. 126 (as Girolamo da Santacroce after Bellini);

G.C.F. Villa, in Giovanni Bellini, Catalogo ragionato, M. Lucco, P. Humfrey, and G.C.F. Villa (eds.), Venice 2019, p. 587, under cat. no. 192 (as a subsequent version of the Vienna picture);

A. Tempestini, Giovanni Bellini e pittori belliniani, Florence 2021, p. 87, cat. no. 12a (as Girolamo da Santacroce and Bellini).