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Property from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Lorenzo di Credi and Workshop

Adoration of the Christ Child

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January 28, 04:44 PM GMT

Estimate

600,000 - 800,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery

Lorenzo di Credi and Workshop

Florence 1456/9 - 1536

Adoration of the Christ Child


tempera on panel, a tondo

diameter: 35 in.; 89 cm. 

Count Alessandro Pichi-Sermolli, Florence, having descended in his family since the 16th century;
From whom acquired, 1933.  
Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Exhibition of Religious Art, 1957.
"Tondo by Credi at Albright Gallery, Buffalo," in The American Magazine of Art, April 1934, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 212-214 (as Lorenzo di Credi and, according to Richard Offner, datable to the first decade of the sixteenth century);
The Art News, vol. 32, February 1934, pp. 3-4;
The Art Digest, vol. 8, March 1934, p. 11;
A. Ritchie (ed.), Catalogue of the Paintings and Sculpture in the Permanent Collection, Buffalo 1949, p. 115, cat. no. 55 (as Lorenzo di Credi);
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, New York 1963, p. 207 (as 'Tommaso');
B. Frederickson and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1972, p. 110 (as workshop of Lorenzo di Credi);
G. Dalli Regoli, Lorenzo di Credi, Cremona 1966, p. 186, cat. no. 194, reproduced fig. 243.