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Dimensions: measurements note 65.5 by 43 cm.; 25 3/4 by 17 in.
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Provenance: Anonymous sale (`From a Private Collection'), New York, Christie's, 4 June 1986, lot 106;
Private collection, Brunn, Germany, by 1989.
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Literature: L. Corti, Giorgio Vasari. Catalogo completo dei dipinti, Florence 1989, p. 58, no. 38, reproduced (as by Vasari, datable to the 1540s).
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Notes: Vasari painted a number of small-scale works such as this one intended for private devotion. Many are derivatrions of much larger altarpieces, but no such prototype for the present composition is known. As Frank Dabell has kindly observed (written communication, 11 March 2006), this work shows similarities with Vasari's Holy Family with Saint Francis, painted for Francesco Leoni in Venice in circa 1541-2, and now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. although the composition of the central couple is reversed, the type of the elegant, slender-fingered Virgin is very similar. Dr Dabell, who confirms the attribution to Vasari, thinks that the present picture dates from the 1540s.
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