Lot Essay
The attribution has been confirmed by Mr. Everett Fahy
FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (1467-1516)
Details
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (1467-1516)
The Madonna and Child
on panel
23 5/8 x 17¾in. (60 x 45cm.)
The Madonna and Child
on panel
23 5/8 x 17¾in. (60 x 45cm.)
Provenance
Charles Brinsley Marlay, by whom probably purchased from Baslini, Milan, 1883
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, to whom bequeathed by the above in 1912 and by whom sold, Sotheby's, 6 July 1966, lot 120, as 'Boltraffio' (#2,000 to Patch)
with Julius Weitzner, New York
with E. V. Thaw, New York
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by whom purchased from the above in 1976; (+) Sotheby's, New York, 1 June 1989, lot 8
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, to whom bequeathed by the above in 1912 and by whom sold, Sotheby's, 6 July 1966, lot 120, as 'Boltraffio' (#2,000 to Patch)
with Julius Weitzner, New York
with E. V. Thaw, New York
Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by whom purchased from the above in 1976; (+) Sotheby's, New York, 1 June 1989, lot 8
Literature
B. Berenson, The North Italian Painters of the Renaissance, 1907, p.233
O. Sirén, Early Italian Pictures at Cambridge, The Burlington Magazine, XXXVII, 1920, p.303, plate IVD, as after Boltraffio
W. G. Constable, Catalogue of Pictures in the Marlay Bequest, 1927, p.44, no.60
B. Berenson, Italian Painters of the Renaissance, 1932, pp.78 and 229, listed twice as Bernardino de' Conti and Gianpietrino
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, 1968, I, p.47, and III, pl.1399, as Bernardino de' Conti
C. H. Jordan, Boltraffio on Loan, Chrysler Museum Bulletin, Aug. 1980, p.2, illustrated
O. Sirén, Early Italian Pictures at Cambridge, The Burlington Magazine, XXXVII, 1920, p.303, plate IVD, as after Boltraffio
W. G. Constable, Catalogue of Pictures in the Marlay Bequest, 1927, p.44, no.60
B. Berenson, Italian Painters of the Renaissance, 1932, pp.78 and 229, listed twice as Bernardino de' Conti and Gianpietrino
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, 1968, I, p.47, and III, pl.1399, as Bernardino de' Conti
C. H. Jordan, Boltraffio on Loan, Chrysler Museum Bulletin, Aug. 1980, p.2, illustrated
Exhibited
London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, Pictures by Masters of the Milanese and allied Schools of Lombardy, 1898, no.66
Norfolk, Virginia, Chrysler Museum, on loan, April 1976
Norfolk, Virginia, Chrysler Museum, on loan, April 1976