Lot 24: Jacopo Carucci, called Pontormo (Pontormo 1494-1556 Florence)

Jacopo Carucci, called Pontormo (Pontormo 1494-1556 Florence)
The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
oil on panel
29½ x 23½ in. (74.9 x 59.6 cm.)

Boston, Boston Art Club Exhibition, April 1879 (lent by Hamilton Wilde).
Florence, Gallerie degli Uffizi, L'officina della maniera. Varietà e fierezza nell'arte pubblica fiorentina del Cinquecento fra le due repubbliche 1494-1530, 1996-1997, pp. 288-289, no. 100.

G. Vasari, Le Vite de' più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architettori, 1568, VI, p. 288 (see note).
P. Costamagna, Pontormo, Milan, 1994, pp. 20-21, 266-267, 326.
E. Cropper, in L'officina della maniera, Florence, 1996, pp. 20, 288-289.
A. Forlani Tempesti, exhibition review in Antichità viva, XXXV, no. 4, 1996, p. 62.
J. Cox-Rearick, review of 'Pontormo' in The Burlington Magazine, CXXXIX, no. 1127, February 1997, p. 127.
E. Pilliod, Pontormo Bronzino Allori, New Haven, 2001, p. 259.
J. Cox-Rearick and P. Costamagna, 'A Bronzino discovery', Apollo, CLIX, no. 506, April 2004, p. 16.

Possibly the estate of Pontormo; inherited by Andrea d'Antonio Chiazzella and sold by him for 15 scudi to Alessandro Allori; bought Piero Salviati, Florence, circa 1556, for 35 scudi and kept in the Villa Baroncelli (now Poggio Imperiale); remained in the estate of Salviati where it is recorded in inventories of 1559 and 1564; thence entered the Medici collections; thence given in 1565 to Paolo Giordano Orsini on the occasion of his marriage to Cosimo I's daughter Isabella de' Medici.
Probably Hamilton Gibbs Wilde (1827-1884).
Private collection, Boston (until 1991).
Mark Borghi collection, New York.
with Whitfield Fine Art, London (Old Masters in a Modern Light, 2009, pp. 20-29).
Private collection, USA.

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Jacopo Carucci, called Pontormo (Pontormo 1494-1556 Florence)
The Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
oil on panel
29½ x 23½ in. (74.9 x 59.6 cm.)