Skip to Main Content

Provenance

Prince Bartolomeo Corsini [1729-1792], Villa di Mezzomonte, near Florence, by 1763;[1] by inheritance to Prince Tommaso Corsini [1767-1856]; by inheritance to Prince Andrea Corsini [1804-1868]; by inheritance to Prince Tommaso Corsini [1835-1919], who in the early 1870s had it transferred to Palazzo Corsini in Via del Parione, Florence;[2] by inheritance to his daughter, Beatrice Corsini Pandolfini [1868-1955]; (Professor Luigi Grassi [1858-1937, Florence); sold August 1930 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London and New York);[3] purchased 15 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[4] gift 1937 to NGA.

Bibliography

1880
Medici, Ulderigo. Catalogo della Galleria dei Principi Corsini in Firenze. Florence, 1880: 56, cat. 176, as by Filippino Lippi.
1884
Burckhardt, Jacob. Die Cicerone. Ed. Wilhelm von Bode. 5th ed. Leipzig, 1884: 2, part 2:579.
1884
Ostoya, Gaetan. Les Anicens maîtres et les oeuvres à Florence. Guide artistique. Florence, 1884: 292, as by Filippino Lippi.
1893
Ulmann, Hermann. Sandro Botticelli. Munich, 1893: 33.
1896
Grifi, Elvira. Saunterings in Florence. A New Artistic and Practical Handbook, 6th ed. Florence, 1896: 364, as by Filippino Lippi.
1897
Lafenestre, Georges and Eugène Richtenberger. La Peinture en Europe. Paris, 1897: 315, , as by Filippino Lippi.
1897
Steinmann, Ernst. Botticelli. Bielefeld and Leipzig, 1897: 10.
1900
Plunkett, George N. Sandro Botticelli. London, 1900: 115.
1901
Venturi, Adolfo. Storia dell’arte italiana. 11 vols. Milan, 1901-1940: 7(1911):591.
1905
Konody, Paul G. Filippino Lippi. London, 1905: xxi, as by Filippino Lippi.
1905
Reinach, Salomon. Répertoire de peintures du moyen âge et de la Renaissance (1280-1580). 6 vols. Paris, 1905-1923: 3(1910):409, pl. 1, as by Filippino Lippi.
1906
Gerspach, Edouard. “La Galerie Corsini.” Les arts 52 (April 1906): 14, 23, repro., as by Filippino Lippi.
1907
Gebhart, Émile. Sandro Botticelli. Paris, 1907: 239.
1907
Rusconi, Arturo Jahn. Sandro Botticelli. Bergamo, 1907: 19, 20, 93, repro.
1908
Cruttwell, Maud. A Guide to the Paintings in the Churches and Minor Museums of Florence. London and New York, 1908: 84, as School of Botticelli.
1921
Bode, Wilhelm von. Botticelli. Berlin, 1921: 28-29, 33, 38, 124, repro.
1923
Marle, Raimond van. The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting. 19 vols. The Hague, 1923-1938: 12(1931):249, 250, repro., as by Amico di Sandro.
1923
Schmarsow, August. Sandro Botticelli. Dresden, 1923: 15 n. 1, pl. 20, as by Botticelli and Filippino Lippi.
1925
Bode, Wilhelm von. Botticelli. English edition. Berlin, 1925: 22-23, repro.
1925
Venturi, Adolfo. Botticelli. Rome, 1925: 117, as School of Botticelli.
1926
Bode, Wilhelm von. Botticelli: Des Meister Werke. Stuttgart, 1926: 5, 147, repro.
1926
Venturi, Adolfo. Botticelli. French ed. Paris, 1926: 103.
1928
Bertarelli, Luigi B. Touring Club Italiano: Central Italy. Vol. 2: Firenze, Siena, Perugia, Assisi. 2nd ed. Milan, 1929: 175.
1928
Lumachi, Francesco. Firenze, nuova guida illustrata: 230. Florence, 1928: 230.
1935
Lumachi, Francesco. Firenze, nuova guida illustrata: 230, 2nd ed. Florence, 1935: 213, as School of Botticelli.
1935
Scharf, Alfred. Filippino Lippi. Vienna, 1935: 115, cat. 109, as doubtfully by Filippino Lippi.
1936
Gamba, Carlo. Botticelli. Milan, 1936: 95, pl. 17.
1937
Cortissoz, Royal. An Introduction to the Mellon Collection. Boston, 1937: repro. 12, as The Corsini Madonna
1937
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "The Mellon Gift to the Nation." Art News 35 (9 January 1937): 11, 15, repro.
1938
Mesnil, Jacques. Botticelli. Paris, 1938: 106-107, 205 n. 97, 226, pl. 52.
1941
Duveen Brothers. Duveen Pictures in Public Collections of America. New York, 1941: no. 100, repro.
1941
Mesnil, Jacques. "On the Artistic Education of Botticelli." The Burlington Magazine 78, no. 457 (April 1941): 118.
1941
Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 29, no. 21.
1941
Richter, George M. “The New National Gallery in Washington.” The Burlington Magazine 78 (June 1941): 177.
1942
Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 239, repro. 76.
1945
[Borenius, Tancred]. “Editorial: The New Kress Gift to the National Gallery, Washington.” The Burlington Magazine 86, no. 504 (March 1945): 55.
1949
Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 26, repro.
1951
Davies, Martin. National Gallery Catalogues. The Earlier Italian Schools. London, 1951: 87.
1951
Einstein, Lewis. Looking at Italian Pictures in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1951: 49.
1958
Gamba, Fiammetta. Filippino Lippi nella storia della critica. Florence, 1958: 91, as by Filippino Lippi.
1958
Salvini, Roberto. Tutta la pittura del Botticelli, 2 vols. Milan, 1958: 1:14, 35-36, 67, pl. 11.
1962
Salvini, Roberto. “Note sul Botticelli.” In Valentino Martinelli and Filippa M. Aliberti, eds. Scritti di Storia dell’arte in onore di Mario Salmi. 3 vols. Rome, 1961-1963: 2(1962): 300.
1963
Berenson, Bernard. Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, 2 vols. London, 1963: 1:38.
1965
Busignani, Alberto. Botticelli. Florence, 1965: 14.
1965
Salvini, Roberto. All the Paintings of Botticelli, 4 vols. New York, 1965: 37-38,
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 17.
1967
Mandel, Gabriel. The Complete Paintings of Botticelli. Milan and New York, 1967: 86, cat. 11.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 10, repro.
1972
Fredericksen, Burton B., and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, MA, 1972: 34, 645.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 36, repro.
1976
Fowles, Edward. Memories of Duveen Brothers. London, 1976: 123, 204.
1978
Lightbown, Ronald. Botticelli: Life and Work. 2 vols. Berkeley, CA, 1978: 2:15-16, cat. A10.
1979
Shapley, Fern Rusk. Catalogue of the Italian Paintings. 2 vols. Washington, 1979: 1:80-81; 2:pl. 54.
1980
De Angelis, Rita. Boticelli: Every Painting. Milan and New York, 1980: 14, cat. 3, as "“partly by Botticelli’s own hand, which is difficult to recognize because the drawing was probably done by Lippi."
1980
Ragghianti, Carlo L. “Galleria di Washington.” Critica d’Arte 45, nos. 154-156 (1980): 219.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 55, repro.
1987
Horne, Herbert. H. Alessandro Filipepi commonly called Sandro Botticelli, Painter of Florence. Appendix III: Catalogue of the works of Sandro Botticelli, and of his disciples and imitators, together with notices of those erroneously attributed to him in the public and private collections of Europe and America. Ed. Caterina Caneva. Florence, 1987: 145, as School of Botticelli.
1988
Baldini, Umberto. Botticelli. Florence, 1988: 254.
1988
Kecks, Ronald G. Madonna und Kind. Das häusliche Andachtsbild im Florenz des 15. Jahrhunderts. Berlin, 1988: 121-122, fig. 111.
1989
Pons, Nicoletta. Botticelli: catalogo completo. Milan, 1989: 55, cat. 8.
1990
Caneva, Caterina. Botticelli: catalogo completo dei dipinti. Florence, 1990: 28, pl. 10.
1992
Testi Cristiani, Maria Laura. Botticelli. Paris, 1992: 21, 95, repro.
1996
Zambrano, Patrizia. “The ‘Dead Christ’ in Cherbourg: a new attribution to the young Filippino Lippi.” The Burlington Magazine 138, no. 1118 (May 1996): 321 n. 3, as by Filippino Lippi.
1997
Goldner, George R., and Carmen Bambach, et. al. The Drawings of Filippino Lippi and His Circle. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1997: pl. 1, 402, as by Filippino Lippi.
1997
Southgate, M. Therese. The Art of JAMA: One Hundred Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association. St. Louis, 1997: 138-139, 210, color repro.
2003
Boskovits, Miklós, David Alan Brown, et al. Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century. The Systematic Catalogue of the National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2003: 152-156, color repro.
2004
Zambrano, Patrizia, and Jonathan Katz Nelson. Filippino Lippi. Milan, 2004: 29, 69 n. 33, 126-127, 130-131, 287 n. 75, 310-311, 312, cat. 6, figs. 105, 108, as by Filippino Lippi.
2005
Cecchi, Alessandro. Botticelli. Milan, 2005: 57 n. 48, as "not completely" by Botticelli.
2005
Tambini, Anna. “Osservazioni sulla ‘Madonna del sangue’ di Portico di Romagna e sul Maestro di Marradi.” Romagna Arte e Storia 25 (2005): 10, as by Filippino Lippi.
2005
Zöllner, Frank. Botticelli. Munich, London, and New York, 2005: 191, cat. 14.
2006
Fahy, Everett. "Early Italian paintings in Washington and Philadelphia." The Burlington Magazine 148, no. 1241 (August 2006): 539, as by Filippino Lippi.
2009
Acidini, Cristina, William Dello Russo, and Federico Poletti. Botticelli nel suo tempo. Milan, 2009: 40, 277, repro.
2017
Serres, Karen. "Duveen's Italian framemaker, Ferruccio Vannoni." The Burlington Magazine 159, no. 1370 (May 2017): 373 n. 40.

Related Content

  • Sort by:
  • Results layout:
Show  results per page
The image compare list is empty.