Paul Demidoff, Nice;
With Jacob M. Heimann, New York;
From whom acquired by Anne R. and Amy Putnam, San Diego (as Fra Bartolommeo);
By whom gifted to the Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego (inv. no. 1944.9).

J. G. Andrews, A Catalogue of European paintings, 1300-1870, San Diego 1947, pp. 23 (as Fra Bartolommeo);
The Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego Catalogue, San Diego 1960, p. 64 (as Fra Bartolommeo);
B.B. Fredericksen & F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1972, p. 155 (as attributed to Jacopo Negretti, Palma Giovane);
J. Marciari, Italian, Spanish, and French Paintings before 1850 in the San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego 2015, p. 318, cat. no. A3, reproduced (as artist unknown).

The following condition report has been provided by Simon Parkes of Simon Parkes Art Conservation, Inc. 502 East 74th St. New York, NY 212-734-3920, simonparkes@msn.com, an independent restorer who is not an employee of Sotheby's. This work looks well in its current state. Each of the corners shows a curved scallop, which suggests that the work was originally shaped. The paint layer is probably dirty. Most of the retouches seem to be visible under ultraviolet light in the beard of the Bishop, in the darker colors in his shoulder, in the upper right, across the bottom edge, in all four corners, and in a few other places. There is the possibility that some of the halo may have been broadly retouched at an earlier date. Cleaning should only be carried out with the understanding that other restorations may become apparent.
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