Vincente Capobianchi

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 10 May 1944, lot 60;

With Mitchell Galleries, London, by 1944;

With Florence Art Gallery, Florence;

Jerome Feig, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania;

Masco Corporation, Detroit;

Their sale ('Treasures from the Gilded Age - Property from the Masco Corporation'), New York, Sotheby's, 10 November 1998, lot 200;

Where acquired by the present owner.

Apollo, vol. 40, November 1944, p. 17, reproduced;

E. Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs, Paris 1976, vol. 2, p. 506.

Capobianchi worked primarily in Rome during the 1870s and also exhibited in 1893 at the Galerie A. von Liebermann in Berlin. A new mandolin is one of the artist's few known works, and according to Bénézit, in his definitive dictionary of artists, it was sold in London on 10 May 1944, probably to the Mitchell Galleries of London, who advertised the painting in a November 1944 edition of Apollo magazine.