Elisabetta Sirani

Giovanni Battista Sampieri, Palazzo Sampieri Senatorio, Bologna, 1663;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 November 1970, lot 11 (as Baldassare Franceschini, called il Volterrano);

Where acquired by the father of the previous owner;

By whom anonymously sold, London, Bonhams, 8 December 2016, lot 52, where acquired by the present collector.

G. Cantelli, Repertorio della pittura fiorentina del Seicento, Florence 1983, p. 85, reproduced fig. 406 (as Baldassare Franceschini, called il Volterrano);

F. Frisoni, in J. Bentini and V. Fortunati (eds), Elisabetta Sirani: ‘pittrice eroina’ 1638–1665, exh. cat., Bologna 2004, p. 253, under no. 113;

G. Cantelli, Repertorio della pittura fiorentina del Seicento, Florence 2009, p. 109 (as Baldassare Franceschini, called il Volterrano).