Lot 146: Bernardino de' Conti (circa 1470-after 1523)

Bernardino de' Conti (circa 1470-after 1523)
Portrait of a lady from the Trivulzio family, three-quarter-length
inscribed with symbols and 'ANO 37' (lower edge)
oil on panel
42½ x 30 in. (108 x 76.2 cm.)

W. Suida in Leonardo da Vinci Loan Exhibition, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, 3 June-17 July 1949, p. 93 under no. 44.
Interior Design, September, 1957, p. 201, illustrated.
P. Trutty-Coohill, Studies in the School of Leonardo da Vinci: Paintings in Public Collections in the United States with a Chronology of the Activity of Leonardo and his Pupils and a Catalogue of Auction Sales, Ph.D. dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, August, 1982, pp. 136, 139, n. 6.
M. T. Fiorio, "Per il ritratto lombardo: Bernardino de' Conti", Arte Lombarda, LXVIII/LXIX, 1984, p. 51, under n. 45.

Princess Mathilde Bonaparte (1820-1904), Paris.
Private collection, Frankfurt, by 1949.
(Possibly) with T. P. Grange, London, 1955.
with French & Co., New York, 1957.
Private collection.