Provenance
Sir George Warrender of Lochend, 4th Bt. (1782-1849), by 1829; his sale, Christie’s, London, 3 June 1837, lot 19 (unsold), and by descent to,
Sir Victor Alexander George Anthony Warrender, 8th Bt., 1st Baron Bruntisfield (1899-1993); Christie’s, London, 26 November 1943, lot 2 (480 gns. to Wengraf).
Sir Thomas Barlow (1883-1964), 1946, and by descent.
Anonymous sale [Property from a Private Collection]; Sotheby’s, London, 8 December 2011, lot 109, where acquired by the present owner.
Literature
C. Phillips, ‘Paris Bordone’, The Burlington Magazine for ConnoisseursXXVIII, no. 28, December 1915, pp. 94-8, pl. A.
A. Venturi, History of Italian Art, Painting of the Sixteenth Century, Paris BordonIX, Part III, Milan, 1928, p. 1032.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the RenaissanceOxford, 1932, p. 431.
E.K. Waterhouse, ‘The Italian Exhibition at Birmingham’, exhibition review, The Burlington MagazineXCVII, no. 630, September 1955, p. 295.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Venetian SchoolI, London, 1957, p. 46.
G. Canova, Paris BordonVenice, 1964, pp. 6 and 81, fig. 5.
M. Bonicatti, ‘For the education of Paris Bordon’, Art BulletinIV, 1964, III, p. 250.
G. Fossaluzza, ‘Some Recovery from Bordon’s Portrait Catalogue’, in Paris Bordon and His TimesTreviso, 1987, pp. 191 and 201, note 45.
M. Lucco, ‘Venice, 1500-1540’, Painting in the Veneto: the sixteenth centuryI, Milan, 1996, p. 85.
P. Humfrey et. al., The Age of Titian, Venetian Renaissance Art from Scottish Collectionsexhibition catalogue, Edinburgh, 2004, p. 110, under no. 29, fig. 1, and p. 431, note 4.
P. Humfrey, in Bellini, Giorgione, Titian and the Renaissance of Venetian Paintingexhibition catalogue, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 96, under no. 13.
G. Fossaluzza, ‘Francesco Frigimelica unusual and a “variation on the theme” by Paris Bordon’, Historical Archive of Belluno Feltre and Cadore, LXXIX, 2008, pp. 181-2, fig. 25.
P. Humfrey, Glasgow Museums: The Italian PaintingsLondon, 2012, pp. 109-11, under no. 31, fig. 1.
A. Donati, Paris Bordone: catalog raisonnéSoncino, 2014, pp. 72, 312-3, no. 89, pl. VIII.
Exhibited
London, British Institution, 1831, no. 152.
Birmingham, City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Italian Art from the 13th Century to the 17th Century18 August-2 October 1955, no. 19, lent by Sir Thomas Barlow.
Manchester, City of Manchester Art Gallery, Art Treasures Centenary Exhibition30 October-31 December 1957, no. 56, lent by Sir Thomas Barlow.
London, Royal Academy, Italian Art and Britain: Winter Exhibition, 1960, no. 80, lent by Sir Thomas Barlow.
