Apollonio di Giovanni

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Possibly commissioned by the Pucci family, Florence;
Lord Faringdon, United Kingdom;
By whom sold, London, Sotheby's, 13 June 1934, lot 14; 
W.B. Chamberlin, Hove, Sussex;
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 25 February 1938, lot 39;
Anonymous sale, New York, Christie's, 25 January 2002, lot 21;
There acquired. 

E.H. Gombrich, 'Apollonio de Giovanni: A Florentine Cassone Workshop Seen Through the Eyes of a Humanist Poet', in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 18, 1955, p. 12, reproduced fig. b and p. 22, note 2;
E. Callman, Apollonio di Giovanni, Oxford 1974, p. 46, note 36, pp. 47-48, 73, cat. no. 52, reproduced plate 205;
C. Filippini, "Plutarco istoriato: le Vite parallele nella miniatura italiana del Quattrocento e la morte di Cesare nei cassoni fiorentini," in Biografia dipinta. Plutarco e l'arte del Rinascimento 1400-1560, La Spezia 2001, p. 196;
F. Pasut, The Alana Collection. Newark, Delaware, USA. Italian Paintings from the 13th to the 15th century, M. Boskovits (ed.), Florence 2009, pp. 32-36, cat. no. 6, reproduced.