LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on poplar panel

Measurements:

22.83 in. (58.00 cm.) (height) by 16.02 in. (40.70 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

King's Lynn, The Fermoy Art Gallery, A Collection of the Nineteen-Sixties, 22 July - 5 August, 1972, no. 2.

Literature:

J.P. Richter, The Mond Collection, London 1910, vol. II, p. 445 ff., reproduced plate 18;. G. Frizzoni, 'La Raccolta Mond ed opere attinenti alla medesima', in Rassegna d'Arte, 1910, vol. XI, p. 46;. C.J. Ffoulkes, 'Richter, Il Catalogo Mond: volume II,' review in L'Arte, vol. XV, 1912, p. 272;. A. McComb, 'Francesco Ubertini (Bacchiacca)', in The Art Bulletin, vol. VIII/3, 1926, p. 165;. B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford 1932, p. 36;. B. Berenson, Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento, 1936, p. 30;. R. Salvini, in U. Thieme and F. Becker (eds.), Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildendden Kunstler von der Antike biz zur Gegenwart, vol. XXXIII, Leipzig 1939, p. 522; . H.S. Merritt, Bacchiacca Studies (according to Nikolenko, 1966);. The Use of Imitation, Princeton, 1958;. B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, London 1963, vol. I, p. 20;. F. Abbate, 'L'Attività giovanile del Bachiacca (fino al viaggio romano del 1524-5)', in Paragone, vol. XVI/189, November 1965, p. 40;. L. Nikolenko, Francesco Ubertini called Il Bacchiacca, New York 1966, pp. 17, 47-48, reproduced fig. 37;. G. Agnew and E. Joll, A Collection of the Nineteen-Sixties, exhibition catalogue, King's Lynn 1972, p. 6, cat. no. 2;. C.D. Colbert, Bachiacca in the context of Florentine Art, Ph.D., Harvard University 1978, p. 43;. R.G. La France, Francesco d'Ubertino Verdi, il Bachiacca, 1494-1557: 'Diligente Dipintore', Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University 2002, cat. no. 14;. R.G. La France, Bachiacca. Artist of the Medici Court, Florence 2008, pp. 169-70, cat. no. 28, reproduced plate XIX.

Provenance:

Count Enrico Costa, Florence (before 1892);. Dr. Ludwig Mond (1839-1909), London, 1892;. Thence by descent to his grandson,Henry Ludwig Mond, 2nd Baron Melchett (1898-1949);. Thence by inheritance to his wife, (Amy) Gwen, Lady Melchett (d. 1982), whom he married in 1920;. By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 24 March 1965, lot 96, for £16,000 to Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd.;. With Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London;. From whom acquired by the late father of the present owner.