- 167
After Andrea del Sarto
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description
- Andrea del Sarto
- The Holy Family
- oil on poplar panel
Provenance
Cardinal Franziskus Herzan von Harras (1735–1804);
By whom gifted to Palffy Marquis los Rios in September 1800, according to an old hand-written label on the reverse (as school of Andrea del Sarto);
In the family collection of the present owner for more than 250 years.
By whom gifted to Palffy Marquis los Rios in September 1800, according to an old hand-written label on the reverse (as school of Andrea del Sarto);
In the family collection of the present owner for more than 250 years.
Exhibited
Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, from 2004, on long term loan from a private collection (as unknown artist, after Andrea del Sarto).
Catalogue Note
One of the smallest recorded copies after Andrea del Sarto's picture of the mid-1520s, now in Palazzo Barberini, Rome (inv. no. 2332).
1. Oil on panel, 138 x 104 cm. See J. Shearman, Andrea del Sarto, Oxford 1965, vol. II, pp. 263–64, cat. no. 73, reproduced vol. I, plate 133.b.