Lot 174: Raffaellino del Colle (Colle, near Sansepolcro c. 1490-1566 Sansepolcro)

Raffaellino del Colle (Colle, near Sansepolcro c. 1490-1566 Sansepolcro) The Holy Family with Saint Jerome oil on panel 33½ x 25 5/8 in. (85.1 x 65.1 cm.)

Manchester, The Art Treasures of Great Britain, 5 May-17 October 1857, no. 149, in Saloon A, as 'Raphael, Holy Family' (lent by T. Grenfell). London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of works by The Old Masters, and by Deceased Masters of the British School, Winter exhibition, 1878, no. 205, in Gallery No. IV, as 'Giulio Romano' (lent by W.H. Grenfell, later 1st Bt. Desborough).

G. Cinelli Calvoli, Cronica di Borgo San Sepolcro, manuscript of c. 1680, Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale, Florence, Magl. CI, XXV, cod. 202, f. 71, as 'Vergine ch'il Giesu ricoupre un velo, ed S. Girolamo ginocchioni e San Giosè da una parte [...] di mano di Raffaello del Colle'. D. Franklin, 'Raffaellino del Colle: painting and patronage in Sansepolcro during the first half of the Sixteenth-century', Studi di Storia dell'Arte, 1, 1990, p. 153. M. Droghini, Raffaellino del Colle, S. Angelo in Vado, 2001, pp. 56-7, no. 6.

Ducci collection, Sansepolcro, c. 1680. T. Grenfell, by 1857, and by descent to William Henry Grenfell, 1st Bt. Desborough, KG, GCVO (1855-1945), Taplow Court, Maidenhead; Christie's, London, 9 April 1954, lot 67, as 'Gianfrancesco Penni' (366 gns. to Brennan).