Portrait of a Young Lady Holding a Cat
Portrait of a Young Lady Holding a Cat is a painting by the Florentine Renaissance artist Antonio d’Ubertino Verdi (known as Bacchiacca), sold through Nicholas Hall to a private collection.
PROVENANCE
Charles Loeser (1864 1928), Florence, by 1890
Private collection, Florence (possibly Benedetti).
with French & Co., New York, 1981; sold at
Christie’s, New York, 12 January 1996, lot 187
LITERATURE
Le Triomphe du Manierisme Européen de Michelange au Gréco, Amsterdam, 1955, exh. cat., p. 49, reproduced no. 15, as Francesco.
Lada Nikolenko, Francesco Ubertini Called Il Bacchiacca, New York, 1966, pp. 19, 52, reproduced fig. 50, as Francesco.
Gertrude Rosenthal, Italian Paintings, XIV-XVIIIth centuries from the Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 1981, p. 94, as Francesco.
Carl Nordenfalk, ‘The five senses in late medieval and Renaissance art’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, XLVIII, 1985, p. 17, as Francesco.
Charles Colbert, Bacchiacca in the Context of Florentine art, Ph.D. Boston, 1978, PhD diss., pp. 77, 113, as ‘possibly Carlo’.
Sylvia Ferino Pagden, I cinque sensi nell’arte ‘immagini del sentire’, Venice, 1996, p. 92, as Francesco.
Robert La France, Franceso d’Ubertino Verdi, il Bachiacca, 1494-1557: ‘Diligente Dipintore’, New York, PhD diss., 2002, no. 109, as ‘possibly Antonio’.
Robert La France, Bachiacca, Artist of the Medici Court, Florence, 2008, pp. 286-287, no. 128, as ‘Verdi studio’.