Francesco de' Medici

at his death to his sister-in-law, Virginia Purdy Bacon

Everett Fahy, Dipinti, desegni, miniature, stampe, Archivio storico fotografico di Stefano Bardini (Florence, 2000), p. 45, no. 371, fig. 371.

Ian Wardropper, “Between Art and Nature: Jewelry in the Renaissance,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 25, 2 (2000), p. 10, fig. 6.

Bernard Berenson, Pitture italiane del Rinascimento (Milan, 1936), p. 100.

Probably Prince Anatole Demidoff, Villa San Donato, Florence (d. 1870) [see McComb 1928

Arthur McComb, Agnolo Bronzino: His Life and Works (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1928), p. 73.

Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance (Oxford, 1932), p. 116.

James B. Townsend and W. Stanton Howard, Memorial Catalogue of Paintings by Old and Modern Masters Collected by Edward R. Bacon (New York, 1919), p. 224, n. 282.

sold Christie’s, London, December 12, 1919, no. 69, as Bronzino, Portrait of a Youth, for ₤620 [according to an annotated sale catalogue in the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles]. Duveen Brothers, New York, by 1925 [according to McComb 1928 and information on the mount of a photograph of this picture in the Witt Library, London]. Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., Pittsburgh, by 1932 [according to Berenson 1932]

sold by Sulley and Co. to Edward R. Bacon (d. 1915), New York and Netherdale House, Turriff, Aberdeenshire [according to Townsend and Howard 1919]

Christopher Lloyd, Italian Paintings before 1600 in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1993), pp. 2–5, ill.

Gabrielle Langdon, “A Reattribution: Alessandro Allori’s Lady with a Cameo,” Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 52 (1989), p. 31 n. 25.

Karla Langedijk, The Portraits of the Medici, 15th – 18th Centuries, vol. 2 (Florence, 1983), p. 858, no. 42.13b.

Christie’s, New York, Important Paintings by Old Masters, sale cat. (Christie’s, January 12, 1978), p. 102, under lot 86.

Edi Baccheschi, L’opera completa del Bronzino, Classici dell’arte 70 (Milan, 1973), p. 106, no. 130, ill.

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections (Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1972), pp. 36, 515, 571.

John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 1970), pp. 254, ill., 278.

Luciano Berti, Il principe dello studiolo: Francesco I dei Medici e la fine del Rinascimento fiorentino (Florence, 1967; new ed. Pistoia, 2002), p. 33, fig. 20.

John Maxon, “Some Recent Acquisitions,” Apollo 84 (1966), p. 221, fig. 2.

given to the Art Institute, 1965.

Bernard Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, vol. 1 (London, 1963), p. 43.

Andrea Emiliani, Il Bronzino (Milan, 1960), pp. 70, 336.