BONIFACIO DE' PITATI CALLED BONIFAZIO VERONESE AND WORKSHOP | Holy Family with Saints James Major, Jerome and Catherine of Alexandria

Otto Friedrich Ludwig Wesendonck (1815–1896), Dresden, Zürich and Berlin, by 1881, inv. no. 40;

His widow, (Agnes) Mathilde Wesendonck, née Luckemeyer (1828–1902);

By inheritance to their daughter Myrrha, Freiin von Bissing, who married General Moritz Freiherr von Bissing (1844–1917), Bonn;

On loan to the Provinzialmuseum, Bonn (inv. no. 15), from 1907, and acquired by them in 1925;

By whom sold ('Westdeutscher Museumsbeistz, Sammlung Wesendonk-von Bissing'), Cologne, Lempertz, 27 November 1935, lot 9, reproduced plate 8;

Anonymous sale, Cologne, Lempertz, 22 November 1973, lot 262;

Private collection, Bonn;

Thence by descent to the present owner.

On loan, Provinzialmuseum, Bonn, from 1907.

Gemälde-Sammlung von Otto Wesendonck in Dresden, Dresden 1881, pp. 8–9, no. 12 (with manuscript valuation at 4,000 Reichsmarks);

F. Harck, ‘Quadri di maestri italiani in possesso di privati a Berlino’, in Archivio Storico dell’Arte, II, 1889, p. 211;

W. Cohen, ‘Die Sammlung Wesendonck’, in Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst, N.F.XXI, 1909, p. 66, reproduced p. 67, fig. 10;

W. Cohen, Katalog der Gemäldegalerie, vorwiegend Sammlung Wesendonk, Bonn 1914, p. 13, cat. no. 15, reproduced pl. 92, fig. 15;

D. Westphal, Bonifazio Veronese, Munich 1931, pp. 86–87, cat. no. 13 (under incorrectly attributed works);

P. Cottrell and P. Humfrey, Bonifacio de’ Pitati, Treviso 2017 (forthcoming, as the work of Bonifacio and workshop).