Lot 8: Filippino Lippi (Prato circa 1457-1504 Florence)

Filippino Lippi (Prato circa 1457-1504 Florence)
The Young Saint John the Baptist praying in a landscape
tempera, oil and gold on panel
28¾ x 16 in. (73 x 40.6 cm.), a fragment
with inscription 'ECCE AGNUS/DEI' (on the scroll, lower right)

London, Thos. Agnew & Sons, Ltd., Loan Exhibition of Old Master Paintings, 1925, no. 1.

C.H. Collins Baker, 'Old Masters at Messrs. Agnew', The Burlington Magazine, XLVI, no. 267, June 1925, p. 8, no. 29, pl. II, fig. C.
W.G. Constable, Paintings by Italian Masters in the Possession of William Harrison Woodward, Oxford, 1928, no. 21.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. A List of the Principal Artists and Their Works with an Index of Places, Oxford, 1932, p. 286.
A. Scharf, Filippino Lippi, Vienna, 1935, p. 110, no. 48.
B. Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento, catalogo dei principi artisti e delle loro opere con un indice dei luoghi, Milan, 1936, p. 245.
K. B. Neilson, Filippino Lippi. A Critical Study, Cambridge, M.A., 1938, pp. 74-75.
L. Berti and U. Baldini, Filippino Lippi, Florence, 1957, p. 50, no. 84.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, London, 1963, I, p. 110, under London.
L. Berti and U. Baldini, Filippino Lippi, rev. ed., Florence, 1991, p. 190.
P. Zambrano and J.K. Nelson, Filippino Lippi, Milan 2004, p. 320, no. 14.

Arthur Ruck, London.
William Harrison Woodward, London, by 1925; Sotheby's, London, 13 May 1931, lot 29 (£400 to T. Borenius).
Professor Tancred Borenius, London.
with Galerie Fleischmann, Munich, 1935.
Baron Maurice de Kornfeld (1882-1967), and thence by descent to the present owner.

PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR

Filippino Lippi (Prato circa 1457-1504 Florence)
The Young Saint John the Baptist praying in a landscape
tempera, oil and gold on panel
28¾ x 16 in. (73 x 40.6 cm.), a fragment
with inscription 'ECCE AGNUS/DEI' (on the scroll, lower right)