Lorenzo di Credi

John Rushout, 2nd Baron Northwick (1770–1859), Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham, recorded as hanging in the Platform Gallery, by 1854;

His posthumous sale, Cheltenham, Phillips, 26 July – 30 August 1859 (this lot: 3 August), lot 540 (as Masaccio, St George), for 190 guineas to Fenney;¹

Alexander Barker (c. 1797–1873), Hatfield, near Doncaster and 103 Piccadilly, London, by 1868;

Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild (1818–1874), Mentmore Towers, Buckinghamshire;  

By descent to his daughter Hannah de Rothschild, Countess of Rosebery (1851–1890), wife of Archibald, 5th Earl of Rosebery, Mentmore Towers (in the Library);

By descent to their son (Albert) Harry Primrose, 6th Earl of Rosebery (1882–1974), Mentmore Towers, until 1939; 

With Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York, by 1943;

Acquired by a private collector, circa 1948;

Thence by descent;

By whom sold (‘The Property of a Lady’), New York, Sotheby's, 12 January 1995, lot 62 (as Lorenzo di Credi);

Where acquired for a private collection;

Whence sold by private treaty to the present owner.

London, New Gallery, Exhibition of Early Italian Art from 1300–1500, 1893–94, p. 7, no. 35 (as St George);

Hartford Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Men in Arms, 2 February – 4 March 1943, no. 20 (as St Quiricus[?]);

New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio's Studio, 29 June – 7 October 2018.

G.F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London 1854, vol. III, p. 196 (as Lorenzo di Credi, St George);

J. Rushout, Hours in Lord Northwick's Picture Galleries; being a catalogue with critical and descriptive notices of some of the principal paintings in the Thirlestaine House collection, Cheltenham 1858, p. 41, no. 246 (as Masaccio, St George);

J.A. Crowe and G.B. Cavalcaselle, A New History of Painting in Italy, London 1868, vol. III, p. 414; rev. ed. 1909, vol. III, p. 384 (as Lorenzo di Credi, in the collection of Alexander Barker, ‘figure of a saint with a banner and shield, all but life-size’);

Mentmore, Edinburgh 1883, p. 130, no. 37 (as a ‘Full-length figure’ by Lorenzo di Credi located in the Library);

H. de Rothschild, Mentmore, Edinburgh 1884, vol. II, p. 60, no. 37, reproduced;

C.J. Ffoulkes, ‘Le Esposizioni d'arte italiane a Londra’, in Archivio Storico dell'Arte, VII, 1894, p. 168 (as San Quirino?);

B. Berenson, The Drawings of the Florentine Painters, London 1903, vol. II, p. 35, no. 675; London 1938 (rev. ed.), vol. II, p. 71, no. 675 (as unquestionably by Lorenzo, usually described as a St George);

S. Reinach, Répertoire de peintures du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance (1280–1580), Paris 1905, vol. I, p. 555, reproduced as line engraving (as attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, St George);

B. Berenson, Florentine Painters of the Renaissance, London 1909, p. 132 (as St George);

A. Venturi, Storia dell'arte Italiana, vol. VII, part I, Milan 1911, p. 818 (as St George);

A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813–1912, London 1914, vol. IV, p. 1865;

H. Bodmer, ‘Lorenzo di Credi’, in Old Master Drawings, XVI, March 1930, pp. 63–64, reproduced fig. 15 (as St George);

R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. XIII, The Hague 1931, p. 314 (as Lorenzo di Credi, St Quiricus);

E. Ricci, Mille Santi nell’Arte, 1931, pp. 549 and 550;

B. Degenhart, ‘Die Schüler des Lorenzo di Credi’, in Münchner Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst, vol. IX, 1932, pp. 98 and 160 (as school of Lorenzo di Credi, St George);

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford 1932, p. 297 (as Lorenzo di Credi, St Michael);

B. Berenson, I Disegni dei Pittori Fiorentini, Milan 1961, vol. II, p. 129, reproduced vol. III, fig. 144 (as Lorenzo di Credi’s so-called St Michael);

B. Berenson, Italian Paintings of the Renaissance: Florentine School, London 1963, vol. I, p. 115 (as St Michael);

G. Dalli Regoli, Lorenzo di Credi, Milan 1966, pp. 137–38, under no. 76; p. 166, under no. 144; and p. 180, no. 177, reproduced fig. 229 (as school of Lorenzo di Credi, St George, and as whereabouts unknown);

R.W. Brewer, A Study of Lorenzo di Credi, Florence 1970, pp. 53 and 54, reproduced p. 41, pl. IX (as St George, once the property of Lord Rosebery);

V. Birke and J. Kertész, Die italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina. Generalverzeichnis, vol. III, Vienna, Cologne, Weimar 1995, p. 1682, no. 4870.