LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

23.74 in. (60.30 cm.) (height) by 17.36 in. (44.10 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

New York, P. Jackson Higgs, Special exhibition of the lost "Peruzzi Madonna" by Raphael, for the benefit of the Emergency Employment Relief Committee for the Unemployed of New York City, 12-14 November 1931.

Literature:

J. Passavant, Raphael d'Urbin et son pe're Giovanni Santi, 1860, II, p. 26, as Raphael. (Possibly) J.A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle, Raphael: his life and works, London, I, p. 251, note, as a copy in the Lombardi collection, Florence. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 28 November 1931, p. 11. G.M. Richter, "The Peruzzi Madonna", Burlington Magazine, LXVII, 1935, pp. 202-211, pls. I and II, as Raphael. F.E. Washburn Freund, Le Stanze di Raffaello, New York, 1936, p. 52, as Raphael. O. Fischel, Raphael, Ed. by B. Rackham, London, 1948, I, p. 358, as a replica. E. Camesasca, Tutta la pittura di Raffaello, Milan, 1956, I, p. 84. L. Dussler, Raphael. A Critical Catalogue of his Pictures, Wall-Paintings and Tapestries, trans. by S. Cruft, London and New York, 1971, p. 19, as a copy, with early provenance as Lombardi collection, Florence. J. Meyer zur Capellen, Raphael. A Critical Catalogue of His Paintings, Landschut, I, p. 206, no. 23/II.1, as a copy. C.C. Bambach, “The Cartoon for La Belle Jardinière, Replicas, and Practices of Full-Scale Design in Raphael’s Florentine Madonnas”, in Raffael als Zeichner / Raphael as Draughtsman, Frankfurt, 2015, pp. 69-74, 80-81, note 47, figs. 11, 14, 16, as "Umbrian artist near Raphael (Domenico Alfani?), with emendations by Raphael".

Provenance:

(Possibly) Lucrezia d’Este (1535-1598), Duchess of Urbino. (Possibly) Peruzzi collection, Florence. (Possibly) Lombardi collection, Florence. Frank G. Macomber, Boston, and by inheritance in 1929 to Mrs. F.G. Macomber, Boston; Parke-Bernet, New York, 2 March, 1950, lot 29, where acquired by Gordon Graves, New York, 1950-1962. Acquired in 1962, by the grandfather of the present owner.