LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil and gold on panel laid down on board

Measurements:

9.72 in. (24.70 cm.) (height) by 7.48 in. (19.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

American Art Galleries, New York, 26 March-5 April 1910. Denver Art Museum, Denver, Italian Master Paintings, 19-25 September 1955. Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, Selected Paintings from the collection of T. Gilbert Brouillette, New York City, 2-23 October 1955, no. 1, as 'Raphael Santi and Atelier'.

Literature:

J. Guiffrey, 'Les peintres Philippe et Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne. Nouveaux documents et inventaires après décès', Nouvelles Archives de l'Art Français, 1892, 3rd series, VIII, p. 183. C.T. Yerkes, Catalogue from the Collection of Charles T. Yerkes, Chicago, Chicago, 1893, no. 44, fig. 44, as 'Raphael'. C.T. Yerkes, Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture in the collection of Charles T. Yerkes Esq., New York, Boston, 1904, I, no. 80, ill., as 'Raphael Sanzio'. M. Vasselin in Raphael et l'Art Français, exhibition catalogue, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1983-1984, lost painting mentioned under cat. 319.

Provenance:

Estate of the Artist; inventoried 17 August 1674, no. 22 ('une coppie d'une petite Vierge où Saint Jean présente un oyseau à Nostre Seigneur, aprés Raphael'), 60 livres. (Possibly) Marquis Costabili, Ferrara (according to the 1893 catalogue of the Yerkes collection, see below). (Possibly) Prince Paskewitch (according to the 1893 catalogue of the Yerkes collection, see below). Charles T. Yerkes, Chicago and New York; (+), American Art Association, New York, 5-8 April 1910, lot 96. J.W.N. Cardeza, Philadelphia. William Morris Tilden, New York, by 1958, from whom acquired by. T. Gilbert Brouillette, and by descent to the present owners.