Lot 166: FRANCESCO  MORANDINI,  CALLED  IL  POPPI

PROPERTY  FROM  A  PRIVATE  COLLECTION
POPPI  1544  -  1597  FLORENCE
THE  MADONNA  AND  CHILD  WITH  SAINT  ANNE,  THE  INFANT  JOHN  THE  BAPTIST  AND  THE  ARCHANGEL  MICHAEL
oil  on  panel
126.4  by  98.4  cm.;  49  3/4    by  38  3/4    in.

U. Schlegel, "Tafelbilder des Cinquecento Fiorentino in Berliner Privatbesitz", in Pantheon, 1963, XI, 1, p. 43, reproduced p. 44, fig. 10, (as Naldini);
S. Freedberg, Andrea del Sarto, Catalogue Raisonné, Cambridge (MA) 1963, p. 229 (as "suggestive of Naldini's style");
C. Van Holst, "Florentiner Gemälde und Zeichnungen aus der Zeit von 1480 bis 1580", in Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz, 1971, XV, pp. 60-62, note 143, reproduced p. 61, fig. 69;
B.B. Frederickson and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge (MA) 1972, p. 635;
V. Pace, "Carlo Portelli da Loro", in Bollettino d'Arte, 1973, LVIII, 1, pp. 87, note 69;
A. Petrioli Tofani, "Di alcuni disegni manieristi", in Artista, 1, 1989, p. 139;
A. Giovannetti, Francesco Morandini detto il Poppi: I disegni, i dipinti di Poppi e Castiglion Fiorentino, exh. cat., Poppi 1991, p. 101;
A. Baroni in S. Casciu (ed.), Dal Rosso a Santi di Tito: la Maniera moderna nell’Aretino, guida alle opere, Venice 1994, p. 86;
A. Giovannetti, Francesco Morandini detto il Poppi, Florence 1995, p. 108, cat. no. 64, reproduced p. 182, fig. 80.

With Theron J. Blakeslee (1853-1914), New York;
With Colnaghi's;
Catholina Lambert (1834-1923), New York;
By whom sold, New York, American Art Association, 21-24 February 1916, lot 328 (as Andrea del Sarto, illustrated as the frontispiece of the catalogue);
Acquired at the sale by William Boyce Thompson (1869-1930), Philadelphia;
Mr and Mrs Halsted B. Vanderpoel, by whom donated in 1961 to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, in memory of Mr and Mrs C.K.C. Billings;
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California (inv. no. 1961.75);
By whom de-accessioned, New York, Christie's, 11 January 1991, lot 1, for $110,000;
Private collection, New York.