Lot 6: SANTI DI TITO

SANSEPOLCRO 1536 - 1602 FLORENCE
PORTRAIT OF LUCREZIA, DAUGHTER OF NICOLÒ DI SINIBALDO GADDI, FULL LENGTH, STANDING IN HER GARDEN WITH A MACAW AND A JERBOA
inscribed to the reverse: Claudia dei Medici/ Nata.nel. 1604 Morta. 1648/ Dipinta da Cristofano Allori
oil on poplar panel
116.2 by 90.4 cm.; 45 3/4 by 35 1/2 in.

Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa, Gedenkmuseum Phillimore Ives, 1951-1961, cat. no. 6, as Cristofano Allori.

Gedenkmuseum Phillimore Ives, Geillustreerde Katalogus van de Phillimore Versameling, Stellenbosch 1951, p. 12, no. 6, reproduced p. 49, as Cristofano Allori;
C. De Benedictis, Altari e committenza: Episodi a Firenze nell'età della Controriforma, Florence 1996, pp. 11-12, and p. 17, note 12, as Santi di Tito;
P. Costamagna in A. Chong (ed), Raphael, Cellini & A Renaissance Banker, Boston 2003, p. 345, reproduced figure 185, as Santi di Tito.

Lady Marion Phillimore (née Ives), wife of 2nd Lord Phillimore, died 1950, Coppid Hall, Oxfordshire, as Cristofano Allori;
By whom given in 1950 in honour of her late husband and her mother the Hon. Mrs Ives, to the Gedenkmuseum Phillimore Ives, Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa, where housed in Phillimore House (formerly Grosvenor House);
The donation anulled in 1961 under the terms of the deed of gift when the Union of South Africa left the British Commonwealth, and with the entire collection returned to the UK  and subsequently sold;
Acquired by Saam and Lily Nijstad by 1984.