Ownership History (Provenance)
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Stefano Bardini (Courtesy of Fondazione Parchi Monumentale Bardini e Peyron.) |
Ugo Bardini (Courtesy of Archivio Bardini.) |
Josef Stransky (Courtesy of Musical America.) |
O. Roy Chalk (Courtesy of Coronet magazine, August, 1966.) |
1 October 1928 |
Sold by Mr. Ugo Bardini to Thos. Agnew & Sons, London. Ugo probably inherited the 1785 Delapierre portrait from his father, Stefano Bardini, who died on 12 September 1922. |
5 March 1929 |
Sold by Thos. Agnew & Sons to Mr. Josef Stransky. |
6 March 1936 |
Passed to Mrs. Stransky (Marie Stransky) upon Josef Stransky's death. |
16 October 1954 |
Sold at auction (by order of Stransky executor) at Parke-Bernet Galleries in New York to Mr. O. Roy Chalk following Mrs. Stransky's death. |
1 December 1995 |
Passed to Mrs. O. Roy Chalk (Claire Chalk) upon Mr. Chalk's death. |
14 April 1996 |
Sold at auction by Mrs. Chalk at C.G. Sloan & Company, Bethesda, Maryland, to anonymous collector. (Mrs. Chalk died at age 95, on 1 May 2006.) |