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The panel has been dated stylistically to about 1504. A related panel of identical size and depicting The Three Graces exists (Chantilly, Musée Condé) - together these panels may have served as covers for portraits.
A cartoon for NG 213 formerly in the Collection was transferred to the British Museum in 1994.
Borghese collection, Rome, by about 1650; collection of William Young Ottley, 1798; said to have been in the collections of Lady Sykes (1833) and then of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1839); bought from the Revd Thomas Egerton, 1847.
Dussler 1971, p. 6
Gould 1975, pp. 212-15
Jones and Penny 1983, p. 8
Plesters 1990, pp. 16-18
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The panel has been dated stylistically to about 1504. A related panel of identical size and depicting The Three Graces exists (Chantilly, Musée Condé) - together these panels may have served as covers for portraits.
A cartoon for NG 213 formerly in the Collection was transferred to the British Museum in 1994.
Borghese collection, Rome, by about 1650; collection of William Young Ottley, 1798; said to have been in the collections of Lady Sykes (1833) and then of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1839); bought from the Revd Thomas Egerton, 1847.
Dussler 1971, p. 6
Gould 1975, pp. 212-15
Jones and Penny 1983, p. 8
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