Francesco Ubertini, called Bachiacca

With Galerie Trotti, Paris;

Dr Eduard Simon (1864–1929), Berlin;

His sale, Berlin, Cassirer & Helbing, 10–11 October 1929, lot 9;

With A.S. Drey, Munich, 1930;

In the possession of the family of the present owner for at least the last fifty years.

Berlin, Kaiser-Friedrich-Museums-Verein, 1914, no. 3.

D. von Hadeln, H. Voss (eds), Archiv für Kunstgescichte, Leipzig 1914, vol. II, reproduced pl. 117;

A.Venturi, Storia dell’arte italiana, Milan 1925, vol. IX, I, pp. 463–64, 474 n. I, reproduced fig. 344;

M.J. Friedländer, Die Sammlung Dr. Eduard Simon, Berlin 1929, vol. I, p. 34, fig. 9 reproduced;

R. Salvini, ‘Umbertini, Francesco’, in U. Thieme and F. Becker (eds), Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, vol. XXXIII, Leipzig 1939, p. 523;

F. Lugt, 'Man and Angel II', in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, XXV, June 1944, p. 326, n. 8;

H.S. Merritt, Bachiacca Studies: the Uses of Imitation, Ph.D., Princeton University 1958, p. 95;

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, London 1963, vol. I, p. 19, vol. II, reproduced pl. 1246;

F. Abbate, ‘L’Attività giovanile del; Bachiacca (fino al viaggio romano del 1524–25)’, in Paragone, no. XVI/189, November 1965, p. 40;

L. Nikolenko, Francesco Umbertini Called Il Bachiacca, Locust Valley 1966, pp. 15 and 46;

R.G. La France, Francesco d’Umbertino Verdi, il Bachiacca, 1494–1557: ‘Diligente Dipintore’, Ph.D., New York University 2002, no. 30;

R.G. La France, Bachiacca Artist of the Medici Court, Florence 2008, p. 182, no. 36, reproduced fig. 143.