Originally Borgo San Lorenzo (province of Florence), in the lunette over the main door of the ‘Pieve’ of San Lorenzo, until 1888;
With Stefano Bardini (1836–1922), Florence, until 1889, by whom sold to
Johann II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1840–1929), Liechtenstein Summer Palace, Rossau, Vienna, until 1938;
Thence by descent within the collections of the Princes of Liechtenstein, Vienna and/or Vaduz;
By whom sold, Amsterdam, Sotheby’s, 18–20 February 2003, lot 194 (as 19thcentury, in the Renaissance style), where acquired.
Literature
W. Bode, ‘[Die Fürstlich Liechtenstein’sche Galerie in Wien], [6]: Die französische Schule, Die altniederländische und die altdeutsche Schule, [Über Umstellungen und Erweiterungen der Sammlungen]’,in Die Graphischen Künste, 18, 1895, pp. 109–29 (pp. 122, 128–9; identified as ‘dem Donatello ganz nahe stehend’ / very close to Donatello);
W. Bode, Die Fürstlich Liechtenstein’sche Galerie in Wien, Vienna, 1896, pp. 124, 131 (identified as ‘dem Donatello ganz nahe stehend’ / very close to Donatello);
W. Suida, Moderner Cicerone: Wien, vol. 2: Die Gemäldegalerie der K.K. Akademie d. Bildenden Künste, die Sammlungen Liechtenstein, Czernin, Harrach und Schönborn-Buchheim, Stuttgart,Berlin and Leipzig, 1904, p. 69 (identified as ‘aus der Nähe Donatellos’ / from the circle ofDonatello);
A. Prachoff, Album de l’Exposition rétrospective d’objets d’art de 1904, à St-Pétersbourg, sous le haut patronage de Sa Majesté Impériale l’Impératrice Alexandra Féodorovna, au profit des blessés de la guerre, St Petersburg, 1907, p. 9 and fig. 2 (identified as by Donatello);
‘Of royal and noble descent’: Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, 18, 19 and 20 February 2003, Sotheby’s, Amsterdam 2003, p. 69, no. 194 (identified as ‘19th century, in Renaissance style’);
F. Caglioti, ‘Donatello misconosciuto: il ‘San Lorenzo’ per la Pieve di Borgo San Lorenzo’, in Prospettiva, 155–6, 2014, pp. 2–99 (identified as by Donatello);
T. Verdon, ‘Pulchritudo et Virtus: il San Lorenzodi Donatello / Pulchritudo et Virtus: The San Lorenzoby Donatello’, in T. Verdon(ed.), Donatello e Verrocchio: capolavori riscoperti /Donatello and Verrocchio: Rediscovered Masterpieces, Florence, 2016, pp. 12–23 (identified as by Donatello);
F. Caglioti, ‘Donato di Niccolò di Betto detto Donatello . . . , San Lorenzo . . . ’, in Emanuele Pellegrini(ed.),Voglia d’Italia: il collezionismo internazionale nella Roma del Vittoriano, exh. cat., Naples, 2017, pp. 312–15, cat. no. 6.8 (identified as by Donatello);
F. Caglioti, ‘Donatello e la terracotta’, in A. Nante, C. Cavalli and A. Galli (eds), A nostra immagine: scultura in terracotta del Rinascimento, da Donatello a Riccio, exh. cat., Padua and Verona, 2020, pp. 34–65: p. 45 and note 27 (p. 63), p. 49, fig. 14, and p. 52 (identified as by Donatello).