Property Restituted to th💟e 🌌Heirs of Ilse Hesselberger, sold to benefit New York charities
Portrait 🔥of a young man with a quill and a sheet of paper, possibly a self-portrait of the artist
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January 26, 05:50 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000,000 - 5,000,000 USD
Lot Details
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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.
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.