Lot 193: The Madonna and Child

Studio of Francesco Raibolini, Francesco Francia (Bologna c. 1450-1517)
The Madonna and Child
oil on panel
15 3/8 x 11½ in. (39 x 29.2 cm.)

(Probably) acquired by George William Fox, 9th Lord Kinnaird (1807-1878), and by descent to Kenneth, 12th Lord Kinnaird, Rossie Priory, Inchture, Perthshire; Christie's, London, 21 June 1946, lot 25 (290 gns. to the following);
with David M. Koester Gallery, New York, from whom acquired in 1952 by the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina (no. 52.9.155), deacessioned by the museum; Sotheby's, New York, 28 January 1999, lot 201.

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN (LOTS 119, 125, 138, 157, 187, 193, 216 AND 235)


George William Fox, 9th Baron Kinnaird, was Master of the Buckhounds between 1839 and 1841; Lord Lieutenant of Perth; and was created Baron Rossie, of Rossie, Perth in June 1831, and Baron Kinnaird, of Rossie, Perth, in September 1860.