Manner of Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Adolphe Stoclet (1871–1949), Palais Stoclet, Brussels, by 1932;

From whom acquired by Duveen Brothers, Paris;

With Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, by 1955;

Where acquired by a private collector in 1955;

Thence by descent in the family.

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works, With an Index of Places, Oxford 1932, p. 290 (as Ambrogio Lorenzetti).

Note on Provenance

This work was formerly in the collection of the Belgian engineer and financier Adolphe Stoclet (1871–1949) and his wife, Suzanne (d. 1949), housed in the Stoclet Palace: an Art Nouveau masterpiece in Brussels, with murals by Gustav Klimt (1862–1918). Designed by Joseph Hoffmann (1870–1956), one of the era's leading artists, the home was a Gesamtkunstwerk of sorts and a showroom for the Stoclets' extensive collection, which included superb Italian gold-ground paintings.