Eleonora of Toledo and Her Son
- Date
- c. 1545/1550
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Dimensions
-
47 7/8 x 39 3/8 in.
121.8 x 100.0 cm
Framed: 66 x 57 1/2 x 5 1/2 in. (167 x 146.1 x 14.0 cm.)
- Department
- European Painting
- Classification
- Paintings
- Credit
- Gift of Mrs. Ralph Harman Booth in memory of her husband Ralph Harman Booth
- Accession No.
- 42.57
- Provenance
- London, Samuel Woodburn (dealer-1882), according to errata in price catalogue of Hamilton palace sale;
Glasgow, Hamilton Palace, Alexander, 10th Duke of Hamilton (until 1852);
By inheritance, 12th Duke of Hamilton (until 1882)
London, auction, Collection Duke of Hamilton, (Christie's), 24 June 1882, lot 399 (to J.W. Vokins (dealer) acting for H. Bingham Mildmay);
London & Flete, Devon, Collection H. Bingham Mildmay (until 1893);
London, auction, H. Bingham Mildmay, (Christie's) 24 June 1893, lot 9 (sold for 780 £);
London (?), Collection Charles Fairfax Murray (dealer-1893);
Paris/New York, Kleinberger Galleries (dealer), bought November 1, 1922 (no. 15,510); sold to
Grosse Pointe, MI, Ralph Harman Booth, by end of 1923 (for $6500 or $7500);
By descent, Mrs. Ralph H. Booth, by whom given to the DIA in 1942.
- Keywords
-
paint, panel, three quarter length, portrait, wood, double portrait
Published References
Waagen, Art Treasures In Great Britain , London, 1854, vol. 3, p. 305 (in Duke of Hamilton's collection, boudoir of new state rooms, misidentified as Isabella).
Smith's Catalogue Raisonnee, Part VI, p. 190 (?).
Valentiner, W.R., "The Ralph H. Booth loan collection," Bulletin of the DIA , vol. 4, March 1923, pp. 50-56, esp. p. 53, repr.
Comstock, H., "Bronzino in American Collections," International Studio , vol. 88, Nov 1927, pp. 51-5, esp. p. 51, repr.
McComb, A., Agnolo Bronzino, His Life And Work , Cambridge (MA), 1928, pp. 30, 90 (as workshop copy, in R.H. Booth collection).
Berenson, B., Italian pictures of the Renaissance; a list of the principal artists and their works, with an index of places , Oxford, 1932, p. 114 (in part by artist)
Berenson, B., Pitture italiane del rinascimento , Milan, 1936, p. 98 (as workshop copy, in R.H. Booth collection).
Valentiner, W.R., "Eleanora of Toledo by Bronzino," Bulletin of the DIA , vol. 22, no 1, Oct. 1942, pp .2-3, cover repr.
Richardson, E.P., ed., DIA Catalogue of Paintings , Detroit, 1944, p. 18, no. 445 (dates picture to ca. 1555).
DIA, Masterpieces of Painting and Sculpture , Detroit, 1949, p. 58, repr. only.
Emiliani, A., Il Bronzino , Milan, 1960, p. 69.
Berenson, B., Italian Pictures Of The Renaissance: Florentine School , vol. 1, New York, 1963, p. 41 (as partly autograph).
DIA, Paintings in the DIA: a checklist of the paintings acquired before June 1965 , Detroit, 1965, p. 18 (dated ca. 1555).
Fredericksen, B. and Zeri, F., Census of Pre-Nineteenth Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections , Cambridge, MA, 1972, p. 36 (as studio or school of Bronzino).
Baccheschi, E., L'opera completa del Bronzino, Milan, 1973, p. 95, cat. 55a, repr.
Cummings, F., ed. Selected Works from the DIA , Detroit, 1979, p. 139, cat. 112, repr.
Langedijk, K., The Portraits of the Medici, 15th-18th centuries , Florence, 1981, p. 694 cat. 35, no. 9 (as copy of Uffizi portrait, cat. 10).
DIA, 100 Masterworks From The Detroit Institute Of Arts , New York, 1985, p. 15, fig 7.
Urry, S. "Evidence of Replication in a Portrait of Eleonora of Toledo by Agnolo Bronzino and Workshop," Journal of the American Institute for Conservation , vol. 37, no. 2, Summer, 1998, pp. 211-21, figs. 1, 3-13.
Henshaw, J., ed., Visitor's Guide: The Detroit Institute of Arts , Detroit, 1995, p. 180, repr.
Florence, Palazzo Strozzi - Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago - Detroit Institute of Arts, "The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Late Renaissance Florence," shown in Chicago and Detroit only, Nov. 2002 - June 2003, cat. no. 8, pp. 145-146, repro. p.144 (entry by J. Cox-Rearick; dated after 1545, son identified as Giovanni).
DIA, Annual Report 2003, Bulletin of the Detr. Inst. of Arts, vol. 77, no. 3/4, p. 15 (ill. only)
Langdon, G., "Medici Women: Portraits of Power, Love, and Betrayal From the Court of Duke Cosimo I," Toronto: Univeristy of Toronto Press, 2006, p. 372.
