
Poppy Harvey-Jones
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Provenance
The Czernin Collection, Vienna, from at least 1844 (see Literature, R. Juffinger & I. Walderdorff, 2015, p. 126)
By descent to Rudolf, Graf Czernin by whom sold
Sale, Christie's, London, 24 May 1963, lot 77
The Collection of Jac. Pollack (according to an inscription on the reverse)
Literature
Graf Ottokar Czernin von und zu Chudenitz, Katalog der Graf Czernin'schen Gemälde-galerie in Wien, 1899, p. 4, cat. no. 15 ('alte venetianische Schule aus Bellini's Zeit')
K. Wilczek, Katalog der Graf Czernin'schen Gemälde-gallerie in Wien, Vienna, 1936, p. 92, no. 15
F. Heinemann, Giovanni Bellini e i Belliniani, Venice, 1962, vol. I, p. 131, cat. no. S. 278, ill. vol. II, pl. 340 (as Fra Marco Pensaben)
R. Juffinger & I. Walderdorff, Czernin: Verzeichnis der Gemälde, Vienna, 2015, p. 126 (as Fra Marco Pensaben and erroneously described as oil on canvas)
The figures of the Madonna and Child are modelled on those in Bellini's San Zaccaria altarpiece of 1505.