Mariotto Albertinelli and Giuliano Bugiardini

Conte Gaetano Susanni, Mantua, by 1827, until 1868;

Paris, Hôtel Drouot, 28 February 1868, lot no. 37 (as Francesco Francia);

Alfredo Omfray, Naples, by 1871;

Mme Baude Collection, Paris, by 1891, until 1894;

With T. Lawrie and Co., London, 1894–96, by whom sold to

Theodore M. Davis, Newport, Rhode Island, by whose estate bequeathed in 1930 to

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (inv. 30.95.270), New York, until 2014;

By whom offered in the Renaissance sale (‘Property from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, sold to benefit the European Paintings Aquisitions Fund’), New York, Christie’s, 29 January 2014, lot 103, unsold;

Acquired after the sale by the present owner. 

Monumenti di pittura e scultura trascelti in Mantova e nel suo territorio, Mantua 1827, pp. 1–2, reproduced pl. I (as Francesco Francia);

O. Mündler in C.T. Dowd (ed.), The Travel Diaries of Otto Mündler, 1855–1858, Walpole Society, LI, 1885, p. 155, entry from 27 May 1857 (as Sogliani);

J.A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in Italy from the Second to the Fourteenth Century, London 1866, III, pp. 498–99, n. 5 (as Bugiardini);

E.B. Andrews, ‘Journal entry, 1 May 1897’, in A Journal on the Bedawin, 1889–1912, New York 1918;

J. Breck, ‘Dipinti italiani nella raccolta del Signor Teodoro Davis’, in Rassegna d’arte, XI, July 1911, pp. 114–15 (as Bugiardini);

J.A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in Italy: Umbria, Florence and Siena from the Second to the Sixteenth Century, London 1914, VI, pp. 119–20, n. 1 (as Bugiardini);

L. Dami, Vita di Giuliano Bugiardini, Florence 1915, p. 36 (as Bugiardini?);

A. Venturi, ‘La pittura del cinquecento’, in Storia dell’arte italiana, IX, 9, Milan 1925, I, p. 426, n. 1 (as Bugiardini);

B. Burroughs, ‘The Theodore M. Davis Bequest: The Paintings’, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, XXVI, 2, March 1931, pp. 14 and 16 (as Albertinelli);

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford 1932, p. 119 (as Bugiardini);

B. Berenson, Pitture italiane del rinascimento, Milan 1936, p. 103 (as Bugiardini);

H.B. Wehle, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Italian, Spanish, and Byzantine Paintings, New York 1940, p. 61 (as Albertinelli);

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, London 1963, I, p. 45 (as Bugiardini);

Art Journal, Spring 1968, reproduced fig. 5 (as Albertinelli); 

F. Zeri and E. Gardner, Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Florentine School, New York 1971, pp. 188–89, reproduced (as Albertinelli);

B.B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge 1972, pp. 4, 336 and 607 (as Albertinelli);

S. Meloni Trkulja, ‘Bugiardini, Giuliano’, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani, 15, Rome 1972, p. 16 (as Bugiardini);

L. Borgo, The Works of Mariotto Albertinelli, New York 1976, I, pp. 160–61, 300–02, no. 14, reproduced fig. 21 (as Albertinelli, possibly with assistance from Bugiardini);

K. Baetjer, European Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art by artists born in or before 1865. A Summary Catalogue, 3 vols, New York 1980, vol. I, p. 3, vol. II, p. 36, reproduced (as Albertinelli);

L. Pagnotta, Giuliano Bugiardini, Turin 1987, pp. 28 and 195, no. 9, reproduced fig. 9 (as probably a collaboration between Albertinelli and Bugiardini);

A. Matteoli, ‘Un'inedita ‘Madonna’ di Giuliano Bugiardini’, in Storia dell’arte, May–August 2000, pp. 20 and 22, n. 13 (as Albertinelli and Bugiardini);

A. De Marchi, in Fonds d’or et fonds peints italiens (1300–1560), exh. cat., Galerie G. Sarti, Paris 2002, pp. 178, 182, 185–86 n. 6, 189, 190–91 n. 6, reproduced p. 180, fig. 1 (as Bugiardini; in fig. caption as Bugiardini and [or] Albertinelli); also anon. entry pp. 172, 174 and 177 (as Albertinelli or Albertinelli with Bugiardini).

Trenton, State of New Jersey Museum, Christmas Exhibition, December 1948–January 1949;

Winter Park, Morse Museum of American Art, Christmas Exhibition, December 1952–January 1953;

Stamford, Stamford Museum, Christmas Exhibition, December 1954;

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Florentine Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum, June–August 1971.