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Property Restituted to th💟e 🌌Heirs of Ilse Hesselberger, sold to benefit New York charities

Agnolo di Cosimo, called Bronzino

Portrait 🔥of a young man with a quill and a sheet of paper, possibly a self-portrait of the artist

Auction Closed

January 26, 05:50 PM GMT

Estimate

3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property Restituted to the Heirs of Ilse Hesse♈lberger, sold to benefit New York charities

Agnolo di Cosimo, called Bronzino

Monticelli, near Florence 1503 - 1572 Florence

Portrait of a young man with a quill and a sheet of paper, possibly a self-portrait of the artist

inscribed on the reverse of the panel:  Picus de Mirandula / Phoenix Mundiinscribed on the sheet of paper:  Cogitat ut scribat, verum ut non scribat imago / Sponte sua scribit, sed neque sponte id agit / Ergo invita facit minimè nam scribere tantum / Destinat, ulterius, scribere, ne sit opus  

oil on panel

30½ by 21⅝ in.; 77.5 by 54.9 cm.

Please note this painting is displayed in a 17th century carved and gilded Carlo Maratta frame. The frame is on loan to us from Diego Salazar Antique Frames and is available for purchase. Please enquire with the department for further information.

ไSir William Temple, MP (1628-1699), Moor Park, 🌄Surrey;

Thence by desc📖ent to his gr꧟anddaughter, Elizabeth Temple (neé Temple)(1686-1770), Moor Park, Surrey;

Thence by descent to🐓 her nephew, Basil Bacon (1725-1775), Moor Park, Surrey;

Thence by𓃲 descent to his heir and illegitimate son by Mary Margaret Williams (née Deveil), Charles Bacon (né Williams) (1751-1820);

Thence by descent to his second son, Kenric♈k Bacon (1801-1888), Moor Park, Surrey;

By whom sold🀅 ("Pictures formerly collected by Sir William Temple, and brought from the Family Seat, in Surrey"), London, Christie's, 30 March 1824, lot 64, for £95.11 (as Bronzino, "A very fine head and capital Portrait of Pico di Mirandola");

There acquired by Henry Seymour, JP, MP♏ (1776-1849), Knoyle House, W🍌iltshire;

Thence by descent to Henry Danby Sey𝓰mour (1820-1877), MP, 39 Upper Grosvenor Street and 209 Piccadilly, London, and Knoyle House, Wiltshire;

ꦡThence by inheritance to his brother, Alfred Seymour, JP, MP (1824-1888), 47 Eaton Square, London and Knoyle House, Wiltshire;

Th▨ence by inheritance to his wife, Is🌞abella Seymour (née Leighton) (1834-1911), 6 Upper Brooke Street, London and Knoyle House, Wiltshire;

Thence by inheritance to their daughter, Jane Margaret Seymo꧙ur (1873-1943), by 1911;

By whose trustees sold, London, Christie's, 23 Ja🐻nuary 1920, lot 78, for £157 (as Bronzino, "Portrait of Pico de Mirandola");

Where acquired by Hugh Blaker fo🌠r £157 (according to Christie's ledger in the Frick);

Dr August Mayer, Schleissheim, by 1927;

From whom acquired by Julius Böhler, Munich,𓆏 4 July 1927, for M 5.000🐟 (as Francesco Salviati);

From whom acquired by Frau Kommerzienrat Ilse Hꦜesselberger (née☂ Wertheim) (1888-1941), Munich, 5 October 1927, for M 14.000 (as Francesco Salviati);

From whom acquired by [Ludwig] Bretschneider♐, Munich, as a consequence of persecut♒ion, 1937/1938;

With Kunsthandlung Maria Gillhausen, Munich;

With Kunsthandlung Karl Seuffer, Munich;

From whom acquired by Reichskanzlei through Frau. Professor Gerdy Troost (1904-2003💙), 28 January 1941, for RM 55🔯,000;

Führermuse🍬um, Linz (inv. no. 1400, as Jacopino del Conte);

Kremsmünster Depot (inv. no. 1468);

Transferred to the Salt Mines ꦓat Alt Ausee (inv. no. 2795);

Wiesbaden Central Collectin🎐g Point (inv. no.&⛦nbsp;4058, in a blue and gold Renaissance style frame);

Transferred to the office of the Ministerpräsident, Wiesbaden, 10 Augu🔯st 1951, and thereafter the Deutsche Parlamentarische Gesellschaft;

Restituted to the estate of Gertrude (‘Trudy’) Sommer (daughtꦗer of Ilse Hesse♛lberger), New York, 2021.