About the Artwork
Head of a Saint
15th or early 16th century
Sandro Botticelli
1444 or 1445 - 1510
Italian
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Paint on wood panel
Unframed: 17 7/8 × 13 1/8 inches (45.4 × 33.3 cm) Framed: 27 3/8 × 22 × 2 3/4 inches (69.5 × 55.9 × 7 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher
50.243
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed, on verso, handwritten: 5356
Marked, label, verso: 51 Marked, label, verso: 99282P | 40 x 50 coll cad [illegible name]
Provenance
collection Baron Michele Lazzaroni (Paris, France).1926, (Howard Young Gallery, New York, New York, USA);
ca. 1926, collection Alfred J. Fisher (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1950-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Marle, R. van. Development Of The Italian Schools Of Painting, vol. 12. The Hague, 1931, p. 87.
Loan Exhibition of Italian Paintings from the XIV to XVI Century. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, March 8-30, 1933, (unpaginated), cat. 25 [as "Head of the Virgin", lent by Mr. & Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher].
Berenson, B. I Pittori Italiani del Rinascimento: catalogo dei principali artisti e delle loro opere con un indice dei luoghi, vol. 1, trans. E. Cecchi. Milan, 1936, p. 44 [as by Bartolommeo Veneto, "Portrait of Beatrice"].
Richardson, E.P. Masterpieces of Paintings from Detroit Private Collections. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, April 23-May 22, 1949, cat. 2, pl. III [as Head of a Virgin, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher].
Richardson, E.P. "A Head of a Saint by Botticelli." Bulletin of the DIA 30, nos. 3 & 4 (1950-51): p. 61-62, (repr.).
Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965. Detroit, 1965, p. 16.
Frederickson, B. & F. Zeri. Census of pre-19th Century Italian Paintings in North American Collections. 1972, p. 33 [as Studio or School of Botticelli, "Virgin Mary", fragment].
Lightbown, R. Sandro Botticelli, vol. II. Berkeley, 1978, p. 158, no. 20 [as by workshop or school of Botticelli].
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Sandro Botticelli, Head of a Saint, 15th or early 16th century, paint on wood panel. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher, 50.243.
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