Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael

Perhaps Raimond van Marle (1887-1936), Perugia;

From whom perhaps acquired in the 1930s by Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi (1878-1955), Florence, certainly in his collection by 1955;

Thence by inheritance within his family, Florence;

From whom acquired by Spencer A. Samuels, New York, 1973;

From whom acquired by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston, 1990;

Private collection, New York, probably by 1996;

By whom anonymously sold ("The Property of a Private Collector"), New York, Christie's, 26 May 2000, lot 74;

Where acquired by the present collector.

O. Fischel, "Some Lost Drawings By or Near to Raphael," in Burlington Magazine 20, no. 107 (February 1912), p. 299, reproduced pl. 1, fig. 2;

O. Fischel, Raffaels Zeichnungen, Berlin 1913, vol. I, p. 73, under cat. no. 56, reproduced fig. 63;

O. Fischel, "Raffaels heilige Magdalena im Berliner Kgl. Kupferstichkabinett," in Jahrbuch der Königlich Preussischen Kunstsammlungen 36 (1915), p. 92, reproduced pl. 2;

M. Conway, "Raphael's Drawings," in Burlington Magazine 28, no. 154 (January 1916), p. 146;

G. Gronau, Raffael, des Meisters Gemälde, Stuttgart 1923, pp. 223, 253, reproduced p. 20;

U. Middeldorf, Raphael's Drawings, New York 1945, p. 32, under cat. no. 16;

O. Fischel, Raphael, London 1948, vol. I, p. 358;

W. Schöne, "Raphaels Krönung des heiligen Nikolaus von Tolentino," in Eine Gabe der Freunde für Carl Georg Heise, Berlin 1950, p. 136 note 43;

R. Longhi, "Percorso di Raffaello giovine," in Paragone 65 (May 1955), p. 22;

E. Camesasca, Tutta la pittura di Raffaello, Milan 1956, vol. I, p. 81 (under Attributed Works);

O. Fischel, Raphael, Berlin 1962, reproduced fig. 24;

L. Dussler, Raffael, Kritisches Verzeichnis der Gemälde, Wandbilder und Bildteppiche, Munich 1966, p. 35, cat. no. 47;

P. de Vecchi, The Complete Paintings of Raphael, London 1966, p. 91, cat. no. 30;

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London 1968, vol. I, p. 352;

A. Forlani Tempesti, in Raffaello, l’opera, le fonti, la fortuna, M. Salmi (ed.), Novara 1968, pp. 331-333, 420 note 61;

A. Forlani Tempesti, in The Complete Work of Raphael, M. Salmi (ed.), New York 1969, pp. 329-330, 418 note 61;

L. Dussler, Raphael, A Critical Catalogue of His Pictures, Wall-Paintings and Tapestries, London and New York 1971, p. 16, reproduced fig. 36;

P. Dreyer, Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Italienische Zeichnungen, Berlin and Zurich 1979, under cat. no. 19;

W. Kelber, Raphael von Urbino, Leben und Werk, Stuttgart 1979, p. 419, cat. no. 26, reproduced;

P.L. de Vecchi, Raffaello, La pittura, Florence 1981, p. 259 (under Other Attributed Works);

K. Oberhuber, Raffaello, Milan 1982, p. 186, cat. no. 12, reproduced;

P. Joannides, The Drawings of Raphael, Oxford 1983, p. 150, under cat. no. 70;

E. Knab, E. Mitsch, and K. Oberhuber, Raphael die Zeichungen, Stuttgart 1983, p. 557, under cat. no. 21, reproduced;

F. Viatte, in Raphael dans les collections françaises, exhibition catalogue, Paris 1983, pp. 201-202, under cat. no. 35;

J. Walker, in Expert's Choice: 1000 Years of the Art Trade, exhibition catalogue, New York 1983, p. 30, reproduced;

M.H. Stolbach, in Spencer A. Samuels: Inaugural Exhibition, Master Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture, exhibition catalogue, New York 1984, n.p., cat. no. 1, reproduced;

M. Ingenhoff-Danhäuser, Maria Magdalena, Heilige Sünderin in der italienischen Renaissance, Tübingen 1984, pp. 14-15;

C. Bambach Cappel, "The Tradition of Pouncing Drawings in the Italian Renaissance Workshop: Innovation and Derivation," Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University 1988, vol. II, pp. 315-316, under cat. nos. 232, 233;

E. de' Giorgi, L'Eredità Contini Bonacossi, L'amiguo rigore del vero, Milan 1988, p. 343, reproduced fig. 33;

A. Gregory, "Wreck or Treasure?" in Journal of Art 4, no. 3 (March 1991), pp. 1, 8;

D. Cordellier and B. Py, in Inventaire Général des dessins italiens, vol. V, Raphaël, son atelier, ses copistes, Paris 1992, pp. 40-42;

G. Cucco, Casa natale di Raffaello, Urbino 1997, p. 134;

K. Oberhuber, Raffaello, L'opera pittorica, Milan 1999, p. 250, cat. no. 17;

J. Meyer zur Capellen, Raphael: A Critical Catalogue of His Paintings, Munster 2001, vol. I, pp. 185-187, cat. no. 18A, reproduced p. 186;

P. dal Poggetto, The National Gallery of the Marche and the other Collections in the Ducal Palace in Urbino, Rome 2003, pp. 188-190;

P. Joannides, in Raffaello da Firenze a Roma, exhibition catalogue, A. Coliva (ed.), Rome 2006, pp. 119-120, under cat. no. 7;

J. Meyer zur Capellen, in Raffaello da Firenze a Roma, exhibition catalogue, A. Coliva (ed.), Rome 2006, pp. 117-119, under cat. no. 6, reproduced;

L. Mochi Onori, in Gli esordi di Raffaello tra Urbino, Città di Castello e Perugia, exhibition catalogue, T. Henry and F.F. Mancini (eds.), Città di Castello 2006, pp. 131-133, under cat. no. 4;

F. Gualdi, "Per Pintoricchio e Raffaello giovane: nuovi esiti di ricerche e 'adornamenti,' libri, animali, oreficerie," in Accademia Raffaello, Atti e Studi 2 (2007), pp. 84-86, reproduced fig. 8b (as Attributed to Raphael);

J. Meyer zur Cappellen, Raphael: A Critical Catalogue of His Paintings, Munster 2008, vol. III, p. 213, cat. no. 18A;

L. Mochi Onori, in Raffaello e Urbino, La formazione giovanile e i rapporti con la città natale, exhibition catalogue, L. Mochi Onori (ed.), Milan 2009, p. 170, under cat. no. 33;

S. Padovani, in The Alana Collection, Italian Paintings and Sculptures from the Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century, M. Boskovits (ed.), Florence 2011, vol. II, pp. 239-246, cat. no. 35, reproduced;

S. Padovani, "Riflessioni su Raffaello giovane, e il mistero della comissione delle due pale Dei," in Paragone 62, nos. 101-102 (January-March 2012), pp. 57-58, 66 note 4, reproduced figs. 56, 59;

V. Catalucci, in Raffaello e gli amici di Urbino, exhibition catalogue, B. Agosti and S. Ginzburg (eds.), Urbino 2019, p. 71, under cat. no. I.9, reproduced;

F. Scaletti, Raphael 500, Bologna 2020, p. 26 (as Raphael?);

G. Dietz, D. Korbacher, and L. Maul, in Raffael in Berlin: Die Madonnen der Gemäldegalerie, Die Meisterwerke aus dem Kupferstichkabinett, exhibition catalogue, D. Korbacher (ed.), Berlin 2020, p. 36, under cat. no. 5;

F. Zöllner, in Raphael, The Complete Works: Paintings, Frescoes, Tapestries, Architecture, M. Rohlmann, F. Zöllner, and R. Hiller von Gaertringen (eds.), Köln 2022, pp. 528-529, cat. no. P18a, reproduced;

D. Cordellier, in Naples à Paris, le Louvre invite le musée de Capodimonte, exhibition catalogue, S. Allard, S. Bellenger, and C. Chastel-Rousseau (eds.), Paris 2023, p. 299, under cat. no. 72.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Expert's Choice: 1000 Years of the Art Trade, Seventh International C.I.N.O.A. Exhibition, 22 April - 12 June 1983.