Francesco de' Franceschi

Sir John Foley, 8th Bart. (1898-1938) Enville Hall, Stourbridge, Staffordshire;
His sale, London, Christie’s, 15 June 1928, lot 3 (as attributed to Marco Basaiti);
There acquired by Frank Sabin (b. 1848), Park House Rutland Gate, London;
H.M. Clark, Teddington, Middlesex, as of 1929;
With the Durlacher Brothers, New York, as of 1945;
Private Collection, England;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby’s, 16 November 1955, lot 107 (as School of Verona);
Ms. Geoffrey Hart, London, and Villa Millbrook, Saint Lawrence, Jersey as of 1956;
Edwards Hutton, until 1958;
Private Collection;
With Wildenstein, New York, by 1963;
From whom acquired, 2011.

G.M. Richter, "Pisanello Studies - I," in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 55, no. 317 (August 1929): pp. 65-6, reproduced p. 61, plate II and in detail p. 64 pl. III-D (as Pisanello);
G.M. Richter, "Pisanello Studies - II," in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 55, no. 318 (September 1929): pp. 133, note 7; 134, 139 (as Pisanello);
G.F. Hill in U. Thieme and F. Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Kunstler, vol. 27, Leipzig 1933, p. 93 (as attributed to Pisanello);
L. Coletti, "Pittura veneta dal Tre al Quattrocento, II parte," in Arte veneta, vol. I, no. 4, October - December 1947, p. 259 (as possibly Jacopo Bellini);
L. Coletti, Pisanello, Milan 1953, p. 31, no. 8 (as possibly Jacopo Bellini);
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Venetian School, vol. I, London 1957, p. 198 (as Antonio Vivarini);
M. Davies, The National Gallery Catalogues: The Earlier Italian Schools (2nd. rev. ed.), London 1961, p. 94, note 6 (as related to a drawing in the Lugt collection);
E. Sindona, Pisanello, New York 1963, p. 128, reproduced p. 120, fig. 31 (as attributed to Pisanello);
Konstens Venedig, exhibition catalogue, Stockholm 1963, p. 57, no. 51 (as Vivarini);
M.F. Todorow, I disegni del Pisanello e della sua cerchia, Florence 1966, pp. 110, 145-146, 193 (as related to drawings from the circle of Pisanello);
R. Chiarelli and G.A. dell'Acqua, L'opera completa del Pisanello, Milan 1972,  p. 108, no. 213, reproduced (as possibly by Jacopo Bellini);
M. Meiss, "Scholarship and Penitence in the Early Renaissance: the Image of St. Jerome," in Pantheon, vol. 32, no. 2 (April - June 1974): p. 138, reproduced p. 137, fig. 10 (as circle of Francesco Franceschi);
A. Conti, "Una miniatura ed altre considerazioni sul Pisanello," in Itinerari: contributi alla storia dell'arte in memoria di Maria Luisa Ferrari, ed. A. Boschetto, Florence 1979, vol. I, p. 75, note 17;
H. Friedman, A Bestiary for Saint Jerome: Animal Symbolism in European Religious Art, Washington 1980, pp. 77, 124, 205, 207, 185, 339, 347, reproduced p. 82, fig. 63 (as a follower of Pisanello);
J.B. Shaw, The Italian Drawings of the Frits Lugt Collection, Paris 1983, vol. I, p. 212 and note 3, under cat. 211, reproduced p. 473, fig. 48 (as attributed to Vivarini);
B. Ridderbos, Saint and Symbol: Images of Saint Jerome in Early Italian Art, trans. by P. de Waard-Dekking, Groningen 1984, pp. 33, 96, note 111, reproduced p. 34, fig. 15 (as Francesco de' Franceschi?);
M. Pastoreau and R. Chiarelli, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Pisanello, Paris 1987, pp. 108-109, no. 213, reproduced p. 108 (as possibly Jacopo Bellini);
D. Cordellier, ed., "Documenti e fonti su Pisanello (1395 - 1481 circa)," in Verona illustrata, no. 8, 1995, p. 37 (as attributed to Pisanello);
T. Franco in L. Puppi, ed., Pisanello: una poetica dell'inatteso, Cinisello Balsamo 1996, p. 117, no. 10, and under  no. 11 (rejects attributed to Pisanello, lists previous attributions);
D. Cordellier in Pisanello: le peintre aux sept vertus, Paris 1996, exhibition catalogue, p. 354, under  no. 235 (as related to a Pisanello drawing);
D. Gordon, National Gallery catalogues: The fifteenth century Italian Schools, vol. I, London 2003, pp. 54-57, note 26, reproduced p. 55, fig. 6 (as attributed to Francesco de' Franceschi).