Object details
Accession number
P27w73
Provenance
Collection of Prince Chigi, Rome, by 1892–1899.
Collection of the art dealers Colnaghi & Co., London, 1899.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Colnaghi & Co., London, 24 June 1899 for £14,500 through Bernard Berenson (1865–1959), American art historian.
Marks
On the back of the panel are a variety of seals with the arms of Prince Chigi, Duke of Ariccia, probably from the 18th century.
Dimension Notes
Frame: 103.5 x 82.8 cm (40 3/4 x 32 5/8 in.)
Bibliography
Ivan Lermolieff (Giovanni Morelli). Kunstkritische Studien über italienische Malerei; die Galerien Borghese und Doria Panfili in Rom (Leipzig: F.A. Brockhaus, 1890), p. 106.
Eugène Müntz. "A Propos de Botticelli." Gazette des Beaux Arts (Sept. 1898), pp. 177-87.
P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. The Chigi Botticelli: Exhibited by kind permission of Mrs. John. L. Gardner. Exh. cat. (London: Colnaghi & Co., 1901).
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