Master Paintings
Master Paintings
Property of a Private Collector
Auction Closed
October 14, 03:02 PM GMT
Estimate
40,000 - 60,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private Collector
MICHELE DI MATTEO DA BOLOGNA
active in Bologna and Venice 1410-1469
A FEMALE SAINT
tempera and gold ground on poplar panel
9⅞ by 3⅞ in.; 24.9 by 8.5 cm.
Borromeo Chapel, Monastery of Sant-Elena, Venice, until 1810;
Edward Solly, Berlin;
By whom sold to Royal Gallery of Prussia, 1821;
Deacquisitioned from the Royal Gallery in 1921;
From whom acquired by Paul Cassirer and Böhler, Munich;
With Artaria, Vienna;
With Arnold Seligman, Rey, and Co., New York, 1931;
Private collection, Connecticut;
By whom anonymously sold ("Property of a Private Collector"), New York, Sotheby's, 28 May 1999, lot 13;
With Alberto Barral;
From whom acquired, 2002.
M. Boskovits, Gemäldegalerie Berlin, Frühe italiensische Malerei, Berlin 1988, pp. 139, 380, reproduced fig. 219;
A. Galli in The Alana Collection: Italian Paintings from the 13th to 15th Century, M. Boskovits (ed.), Florence 2009, pp. 126-129, cat. no. 22.