Inscription
falsely dated, on base, across front: T[for I]OANNA ALBIZA MCCC C[L or I]X
Provenance
Acquired from the artist c. 1865 by (Francesco Simonelli, Florence);[1] purchased 1865 by Louis-Charles Timbal [1821-1880], Paris; sold 1872 with his collection to Gustave Dreyfus [1837-1914], Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 21-22 February 1873, 1st day, no. 63, bought in);[2] his estate; purchased 1930 with the entire Dreyfus collection by (Duveen Brothers, Inc. London, New York, and Paris); purchased May 1933 by the Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, and subsequently returned to (Duveen Brothers, Inc.);[3] purchased 15 December 1936 by The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh;[4] gift 1937 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1932
- Sculpture and Medals of the Renaissance from the Dreyfus Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1932, as by Desiderio da Settignano.
Bibliography
- 1868
- Foresi, Alexandre. Tour de Babel: ou objet d'Art faux pris pour vrais et vice versa. Paris, Florence, 1868: 40-42.
- 1873
- Hôtel Drouot. Objets d'art et de curiosité de la Renaissance: Tableaux anciens des écoles italienne et holondaise. Paris, 1873: 14.
- 1884
- Eudel, Paul. Le truquage. Le contrafaçons dévoillées. Paris, 1884: 388.
- 1907
- Vitry, Paul. "La collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus: I. - La Sculpture." Les Arts 72 (December 1907): repro. 21, 27.
- 1911
- Foresi, Mario. "Di un valoroso scultore: E della vicende delle sue opere celebri." Rassegna Nazionale 180 (1 August 1911): 397-414.
- 1937
- Cortissoz, Royal. An Introduction to the Mellon Collection. Boston, 1937: 25.
- 1941
- Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 223, no. A-18, as Bust of a Lady by Florentine School, XV Century.
- 1942
- Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 253, repro. 227, as Bust of a Lady by Florentine School, XV Century.
- 1943
- Swarzenski, Georg. "Some Aspects of Italian Quattrocento Sculpture in the National Gallery." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 6th series, 24 (November 1943): 289, repro.
- 1944
- Duveen Brothers, Inc. Duveen Sculpture in Public Collections of America: A Catalog Raisonné with illustrations of Italian Renaissance Sculptures by the Great Masters which have passed through the House of Duveen. New York, 1944: figs. 65-66, as A Florentine Lady, by Desiderio da Settignano.
- 1949
- Galassi, Guiseppe. La scultura fiorentina del quattrocento. Milan, 1949: 171-172, 187.
- 1962
- Cardellini, Ida. Desiderio da Settignano. Milan, 1962: 88.
- 1973
- Sani, Bernardina. "Le vrai et le faux dans l'oeuvre de Bastianini." Revue de l'Art 21 (1973): 102-107.
- 1974
- Pope-Hennessy, John. "The Forging of Italian Renaissance Sculpture." Apollo 99 (April 1974): 260, 267, repro. no. 60.
- 1994
- Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 27, repro.
- 2000
- Damianaki, Chrysa. The female portrait busts of Francesco Laurana. Rome, 2000: 99-100, 105, 181 n. 101, pl. 159.
- 2004
- Moskowitz, Anita F. "The Case of Giovanni Bastianini: A Fair and Balanced View." Artibus et Historiae 25, no. 50 (2004): 157-185, repro.
- 2007
- Desiderio da Settignano: Sculptor of Renaissance Florence. Exh. cat. Musée du Louvre, Paris; Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Milan, 2007: 154, fig. 98.
- 2011
- Moskowitz, Anita F. "'Dell'Anima Trasmigrata': Giovanni Bastianini and Desiderio da Settignano." In Connors, Joseph, Alessandro Nova, Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi and Gerhard Wolf, eds. Papers from a colloquium held at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence, Max-Planck-Institut, and at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies, Florence, May 9-12, 2007 on occasion of the exhibition in Florence dedicated to Desiderio da Settignano. Venice, 2011: 269-270, repro. 274.
- 2013
- Moskowitz, Anita F. Forging Authenticity: Bastianini and the Neo-Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Florence. Florence, 2013: 58-62, n. 112, 115, 127-29, n. 134, figs. 34-39, 41.
