Bartolomeo Suardi was known as Bramantino after his contemporary in Milan, the great architect Bramante (1443/44–1514); his abiding interest in perspective and architecture, reflected in the background of this rare, private devotional painting, comes from that source
B[attista]. Cavalcaselle. 2nd ed. [1st ed. 1871].
I, p. 345, vol. II, pl. 139, nr. 1. Dimand, Maurice S.
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Heckscher, Seán Hemingway, Herbert Heyde, Timothy B.
Emile Gavet, Paris (until 1897) ; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (May 9–June 9, 1897, no. 327) ; Paul Casimir Garnier, Paris (1897–1916) ; his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris (December 18–23, 1916, no
Wasmuth, 1922. p. 8, pl. 45c. Goldschmidt, Adolph.
Greuze was of modest birth, the son of a roofer. He received his early training in Lyons and in Paris studied drawing with Charles Joseph Natoire. In 1755, after he was accepted as a candidate member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture in the category of genre painter, Greuze presented five works for exhibition at the Salon
B. Greuze." Les artistes célèbres.
Athens: Zappeion Exhibition Hall, 1964. no. 495, p. 423.
Worcester, Mass.: Worcester Art Museum, 1937. p. 42.
London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, p. 27 no. 39C pl. 51.
Inscription: (central medallion (A), front, on scroll of Moses, center): SIC . ERIT . VITA . TVA . PENDENS / . ANE . N . CREDES . VITE . TVE (Thus your life will hang in the balance before [you], you will not be sure of your life [Deuteronomy 28:66])(central medallion (A), front, on upper left scroll): SICVT
Forsyth, William H., and Margaret B. Freeman.
Theodore M. Davis Excavations by Quibell and Weigall, 1905. Acquired by Davis in the division of finds, 1905. Theodore M. Davis Collection 1905-1015. Bequeathed to the Museum by Davis, 1915; accessioned, 1930
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