2020 EXHIBITORS
GALLERIES/Galerie Canesso
Bernardino Licinio
c. 1490 - c. 1550
Young Lady and her Suitor
c. 1520
Oil on wood panel
81.3 × 114.3 cm. (32 ⅛ × 45 in.)
POA
PROVENANCE:
Caroline Murat (1782-1839), Queen of Naples;sold as part of her collection in 1822 to Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry (1778-1854), while she was in exile at the castle of Frohsdorf in Austria ("Les archives Murat aux Archives nationales", Paris, 1967, p. 150, under no. 100: "Vente par la comtesse de Lipona [anagram of Napoli] au marquis Vane Londonderry pour le prix de 9200 livres sterling d'une collection de tableaux faisant partie du cabinet de Frohsdorf, 29 novembre 1822. Cote 31 AP 21 dr 371");
Christie's sale, London, 12 July 1823, lot 12 ("Thirteen Italian Pictures of the Highest class lately the property of Madame Murat, ex-queen of Naples and brought to this country by a distinguished Nobleman" [certainly Lord Londonderry]), as Titian;
James-Alexandre, Comte de Pourtalès-Gorgier (1776-1855);
his posthumous sale, Paris, 27 March 1865 and following days, lot 60, as Giorgione, sold for 650 Francs;
collection Ivor Churchill Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne, Canford Manor, Dorset;
his sale, Christie's, London, 9 March 1923, lot 4, as Paris Bordone, sold to Buttery; in 1924, Amsterdam, with the dealer Jacques Goudstikker (1897-1940);
Vienna, Dr. Gustav Arens collection, confiscated and assigned to the Führermuseum, Linz, as Palma Vecchio;
returned, May 1948 (MCCP inventory no. 9029);
and by descent to its last owner, who left it on loan to the Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco between 1949 and 2011;
on the owner's death in 2011, the heirs offered the painting for sale at Sotheby's, New York, 26 January 2012, lot 21 (as Licinio).