Collection

The marquis de Gallo; Purchased in Paris by the seventh earl of Elgin, 1806; Earls of Elgin and Kincardine; Acquired by the Putnam Foundation, 1964

Manchester, England, 1.857, Catalogue of Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, p. 23, no.143, as Leonardo da Vinci but with the notation, "the work, most probably, of Antonio Boltraffio"; London, Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1898, Illustrated Catalogue of Pictures by Masters of the Milanese and Allied Schools of Lombardy, no. 47, pl. X, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci; London, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, 1930, Exhibition of Italian Art, 1200-1.900, p. 186, no. 320; London, Royal Academy of Arts, Diploma Gallery, 1952, Leonardo da Vinci Quincentenary Exhibition, p. 70 no. 256.

G. F. Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain (supplement to his 1854 Treasures of Art in Great Britain), 4 vols. (London,1857), 4:444; Bernard Berenson, North Italian Painters of the Renaissance (New York, 1907), p. 172; Gardner Teall, "Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio," International Studio 85 (October 1926): 25; Wilhelm Suida, Leonardo und sein Kreis (Munich, 1929), p. 287, as a half-figure of a youth; Italian Art: An Illustrated Souvenir of the Exhibition of Italian Art at Burlington House London (London, 1930), p. 54, no. 91, ill.; Enrico Mauceri, "Dipinti di raccolte inglese alla mostra d'arte italiana a Londra," Dedalo 10 (May 1930): 755,758, ill.; Agnes Mongan and Elizabeth Mongan, European Paintings in the Timken Art Gallery (San Diego, 1969), pp. 28, 29,109-10, no. 6, ill.; Burton Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth­ Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Mass., 1972), pp. 30, 524, 632; Martin E. Petersen, "Three Centuries of European Paintings, 1300-16oo," Apollo 115 (June 1982): 447, fig.11; Timken Art Gallery: European and American Works of Art in the Putnam Foundation Collection (San Diego, 1983), pp.16-1.y, 1.15, no. 1, ill.

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