Image: Sotheby’s catalogue.

• Title(s): Florentine Mother and Child (Grosvenor gallery catalogue 1882); A Florentine Madonna (Sotheby’s 1980).
• Description: Upper torso of a woman, three-quarter turned towards viewer, holding a very young dressed child, dressed; the woman is wearing a wedding ring and elaborate earring pendent and there are buildings in the background.
• Media: unspecified.
• Dimensions: 85 x 60 cm (Sotheby’s, 1980).
• Signature/date/other text: “signed Annie L. Robinson, inscribed Florence and dated 1881” (Sotheby’s 1980).
• History:
  • 1881 – Signed and dated 1881.
  • 1882 – Exhibited Grosvenor Gallery, London, no. 222, “Florentine Mother and Child … Miss A. L. Robinson” (Grosvenor Gallery catalogue, 1882).
  • 1905 – “Provenance: Charles J. Galloway, Knutsford, Cheshire,1905” (Sotheby’s 1980).
  • 1980 Nov 19 – Auctioned Sotheby’s, London, “signed Annie L. Robinson, inscribed Florence and dated 1881 / 33½ in. by 23½ in. 85 cm. by 60 cm. / Exhibition: Grosvenor Gallery, 1882” (Sotheby’s auction catalogue).
• Location: unknown.

Image: Netherlands Institute for Art History.

… a study of a dark-haired Italian mother and child; a picture remarkable for character and colour. No. 222, “Florentine Mother and Child.” Miss A. L. Robinson.

Henry Blackburh (ed., May 1882) Grosvenor Notes 1882. London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly.

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