The Holy Family with Four Saints and a Female Donor

A Catalogue of Paintings, Statues, Busts, etc. at Marbury Hall, the Seat of John Smith Barry, Esq., in the County of Chester (London, 1814), p. 9, no. 225; 2nd ed. (Warrington, 1819), p. 9, no. 225.

by descent to his daughter the Honorable Mrs. Dorothy Elizabeth Bell of Fota Island, County Cork, Ireland

Manchester, Art Treasures of the United Kingdom, 1857, no. 92, as Beltraffio [sic].

Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain (London, 1857), p. 409.

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Works by the Old Masters, 1879, no. 175, as Boltraffio.

Acquired either by James Hughes Smith-Barry (1746?–1801) or by his eldest son John Smith-Barry (b. 1793), both of Marbury Hall, near Northwich, Cheshire, and Fota Island, County Cork, Ireland

Maria Teresa Fiorio, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio: un pittore milanese nel lume di Leonardo (Milan, 2000), p. 182, ill.

Gustav Friedrich Waagen, Galleries and Cabinets of Art in Great Britain: Being an Account of More than Forty Collections of Paintings, Drawings, Sculptures, MSS. (London, 1957), vol. 4 (supplemental), p. 409.

sold Sotheby’s, London, June 21, 1933, no. 44 (ill.), as Boltraffio. Sold Sotheby’s, London, March 23, 1960, no. 116 (ill.), as Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, to H. M. Calmann [according to annotated sale catalogue, Ryerson Library, the Art Institute of Chicago]. H. M. Calmann, London, 1960–63

by descent to Arthur Hugh Smith-Barry (d. 1925), first and last Lord Barrymore

Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 206–09, ill.

Anchise Tempestini, “Antonio da Bologna: Uno o due?” Mitteilungen des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 25 (1981), pp. 344–52, fig. 6.

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 136, 571.

John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), p. 251, ill.

sold by Calmann to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1963.