
Portrait of a Lady
Michele Tosini, called Michele di Ridolfo · c. 1555
Provenance
Ownership history
- Elia Volpi, Florence, by 1910; sold in his sale, Jandolo and Tavazzi, Florence, April 25, 1910, no. 64, as Ridolfo Ghirlandajo. Sedelmeyer Gallery, Paris, by 1913, as Bronzino [see Galerie Sedelmeyer 1913; this location does not necessarily precede its presence in Eugène Fischhof’s possession]. Eugène Fischhof, Paris, by 1913; sold in his sale, Galerie George Petit, Paris, June 14, 1913, no. 69, as Bronzino, for Fr 11,000 [according to an annotated sale catalogue in The Ryerson Library, Art Institute]. Van Diemen Galleries, New York, by 1926; sold by Van Diemen to Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1926, as Bronzino [according to a letter from Van Diemen to Worcester dated November 8, 1926, in curatorial file]; intermittently on loan to the Art Institute from 1926; given to the Art Institute, 1937.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Summer Exhibition, 1920, no cat.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–November 1, 1933, no. 127, as by Bronzino.
Literature
Published references
- Galerie Sedelmeyer, Illustrated Catalogue of the Twelfth Series of 100 Paintings by Old Masters of the Dutch, Flemish, Italian, French, and English Schools, Being a Portion of the Sedelmeyer Gallery (Paris, 1913), p. 54, no. 32, pl. 32.
- Frederick Mortimer Clapp, Jacopo Carucci da Pontormo: His Life and Work (New Haven, 1916), p. 101.
- Arthur McComb, Agnolo Bronzino: His Life and Works (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1928), pp. 142–43.
- Daniel Catton Rich, Catalogue of the Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection of Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings (Chicago, 1938), pp. 11–12, no. 7, pl. VI.
- Charles Fabens Kelley, “Chicago: Record Years,” Art News 51, 4 (1952), p. 59, ill.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 226, 246.
- Iris Hofmeister Cheney, “Francesco Salviati (1510–1563)” (Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1963), p. 481.
- Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 204, 530, 571.
- Fern Rusk Shapley, National Gallery of Art: Catalogue of Italian Paintings, vol. 1 (Washington, D.C., 1979), p. 334.
- Luisa Mortari, Francesco Salviati (Rome, 1992), p. 154, no. 141, fig. 141.
- Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 253–55, ill.
- Roberta Ferrazza, Palazzo Davanzati e le collezioni di Elia Volpi (Florence, 1994), p. 104, fig. 99.
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