Provenance

Unidentified collector’s mark (Lugt 4699, associated with Nicholas Lanier)

P. & D. Colnaghi, London

Sale: London, Christie’s, 10 July 1973, lot 66 (as attributed to Sodoma)

Prof. Eric Stanley (1923–2018), Oxford,

By descent

Literature

R. Scorza, “A New Drawing for the Florentine ‘Apparato’ of 1565: Borghini, Butteri and the ‘Tuscan Poets,’” in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 127, no. 993, December 1985, pp. 887-90, fig. 79 (as Butteri)

R. Scorza, “Borghini, Butteri and Allori: A Further Drawing for the 1565 ‘Apparato,’” in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 137, no. 1104, March 1995, pp. 172 (as Butteri)

A. M. Petrioli Tofani, Michelangelo, Vasari and Their Contemporaries: Drawings from the Uffizi, exhibition catalogue, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2008, p. 161 (as “replica, probably not autograph”)

R. Eitel Porter and J. Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, exhibition catalogue, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, pp. 315-27, under cat. no. 100 (as Butteri)

HERBERT F. JOHNSON MUSEUM OF ART, CORNELL UNIVERSITY