The Madonna of the Magnificat

(Sandro Filipepi (called Botticelli))

PROVENANCE: Rev. J. M. Rhodes, who is said to have bought it in Florence at the end of the 19th Century and owned it until 1926.

Julius Böhler, Munich (in his private collection from 1926-1951) Thos. Agnew & Sons (cleaned by Horace Buttery 1963)

The Mount Collection until 19

The Matthiesen Gallery & P&D Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London (sold in exchange for Kandinsky through Rosenberg & Stiebel).

Private Collection.

EXHIBITED: London, Agnews, Horace Buttery Memorial Exhibition, 1963, No 13.

London, Wildenstein, The Art of Painting in Florence and Siena from 1250-1500, 1965, no 60, fig 54.

Warsaw, Royal Castle Museum, Opus Sacrum 1990, no 13, pp. 88-93, catalogue entry by Lionello Puppi.

London, National Gallery, Florence 1470, Oct 1999 – Jan 2000

‘Opus Sacrum’, publ by IRSA, 1990
Matthiesen, cat. of the exhibition ‘2001:An Art Odyssey’, 2001 LITERATURE: D Sutton, “The Mount Trust Collection,” Connoisseur, Oct. 1960, p. 103, fig. 5.

Editorial, “The Early Renaissance in Tuscany,” Burlington Magazine, cvii, March, 1965, p 109.

R. Lightbown, Botticelli Complete catalogue, London 1978, p. 44, no. B29 (“reduced version”)

Warsaw, Royal Castle Museum, Opus Sacrum, 1990, no 13, pp. 88-93, catalogue entry by Lionello Puppi.

Opus Sacrum, Warsaw, 1990