Master Paintings
Master Paintings
Property from the Martello Collection
Giovanni Francesco Caroto
Madonna and Child in a Landscape
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May 20, 03:42 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
Lot Details
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Property from the Martello Collection
Giovanni Francesco Caroto
Verona 1480 - 1555
Madonna and Child in a Landscape
signed on the arm of the chair, lower right: IO.F. CHAROTUS F.
oil on panel
panel: 23 ¼ by 18 ¾ in.; 59 by 47.5 cm.
framed: 31 ¼ by 25 ⅝ in.; 79.4 by 65.1 cm.
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Baron Heinrich von Tucher, Vienna and Berlin;
Offered in his sale, Berlin, P. Cassirer & H. Helbing, 8 December 1925, lot 68 (where unsold);
Louis F. Rothschild (1869–1957), New York;
Thence by bequest to Mrs. Leonard A. Hochstader (d. 1962), New York, 1956;
Anonymous sale, New York Parke-Bernet, 2 March 1967, lot 56;
There acquired by Azad B. Korabagui, New York;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby’s, 17 January 1987, lot 13;
There acquired by the present collector.
Offered in his sale, Berlin, P. Cassirer & H. Helbing, 8 December 1925, lot 68 (where unsold);
Louis F. Rothschild (1869–1957), New York;
Thence by bequest to Mrs. Leonard A. Hochstader (d. 1962), New York, 1956;
Anonymous sale, New York Parke-Bernet, 2 March 1967, lot 56;
There acquired by Azad B. Korabagui, New York;
By whom sold, New York, Sotheby’s, 17 January 1987, lot 13;
There acquired by the present collector.
G. Bernardini, La collezione di quadri del Museo Civico di Verona, Rome 1902, p. 52;
G. Bernardini, “La Quadereria Sandor-Lederer a Budapest,” in L’Arte IX, 1906, p. 98 passim;
B. Berenson, North Italian Painters of the Renaissance, London 1907, p. 191;
F. Wickhoff, “Die Sammlung Tucher,” in Münchener Jahrbuch I, 1908, p. 26, reproduced fig 8;
T. Borenius, in J.A. Crowe and B.G. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in North Italy, London 1912, vol. II, p. 193, no. 1;
G. Fiocco, in G. Vasari, Vita di Fra Giocondo, di Liberale e di altri Veronesi, Florence 1915, vol. II, pp. 17-75
A. Venturi, Storia dell’Arte italiana IX, no. 3, 1928, p. 888;
A Avena, Capolavori della pittura veronese, exhibition catalogue, Verona 1947, p. 39;
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London 1968, vol. I, p. 81, reproduced vol. III, pl. 1883;
M. T. Franco Fiorio, Giovan Francesco Caroto, Verona 1971, pp. 56-57;
B. Brenzoni, Dizionario di artisti veneti, Florence 1972, p. 78;
P. Brugnoli, “Giovanni Francesco Caroto,” in Maestri della Pittura veronese, Verona 1974, pp. 164-66, reproduced p. 165, fig. 109, in reverse;
M. Natale and P.B. Barcelon, Pittura Italiana dal ‘300 al ‘500, Milan 1991, pp. 90-91;
M. Boskovits, The Martello collection: further paintings drawings and miniatures, 13-18th century, Florence 1992, pp. 40-43, cat. no. 7, reproduced in color p. 41;
P. Marini, G. Peretti, and F. Rossi, Museo di Castelvecchio. Catalogo generale dei dipinti e delle miniature delle collezioni civiche veronesi. Dalla fine del X all'inizio del XVI secolo, Milan 2010, p. 397.
G. Bernardini, “La Quadereria Sandor-Lederer a Budapest,” in L’Arte IX, 1906, p. 98 passim;
B. Berenson, North Italian Painters of the Renaissance, London 1907, p. 191;
F. Wickhoff, “Die Sammlung Tucher,” in Münchener Jahrbuch I, 1908, p. 26, reproduced fig 8;
T. Borenius, in J.A. Crowe and B.G. Cavalcaselle, A History of Painting in North Italy, London 1912, vol. II, p. 193, no. 1;
G. Fiocco, in G. Vasari, Vita di Fra Giocondo, di Liberale e di altri Veronesi, Florence 1915, vol. II, pp. 17-75
A. Venturi, Storia dell’Arte italiana IX, no. 3, 1928, p. 888;
A Avena, Capolavori della pittura veronese, exhibition catalogue, Verona 1947, p. 39;
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance. Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London 1968, vol. I, p. 81, reproduced vol. III, pl. 1883;
M. T. Franco Fiorio, Giovan Francesco Caroto, Verona 1971, pp. 56-57;
B. Brenzoni, Dizionario di artisti veneti, Florence 1972, p. 78;
P. Brugnoli, “Giovanni Francesco Caroto,” in Maestri della Pittura veronese, Verona 1974, pp. 164-66, reproduced p. 165, fig. 109, in reverse;
M. Natale and P.B. Barcelon, Pittura Italiana dal ‘300 al ‘500, Milan 1991, pp. 90-91;
M. Boskovits, The Martello collection: further paintings drawings and miniatures, 13-18th century, Florence 1992, pp. 40-43, cat. no. 7, reproduced in color p. 41;
P. Marini, G. Peretti, and F. Rossi, Museo di Castelvecchio. Catalogo generale dei dipinti e delle miniature delle collezioni civiche veronesi. Dalla fine del X all'inizio del XVI secolo, Milan 2010, p. 397.
Giovanni Francesco Caroto was active in his hometown of Verona and in Milan and continued the stylistic traditions of Liberale da Verona, Andrea Mantegna, and derived influence in his mature career from Correggio, Giulio Romano, and Raphael as well. Few of his works are dated, but on the basis of stylistic evolution, the present work likely dates to the early 1520s, while he was back in Verona between trips to Casale in 1517 and 1523.
Caroto painted another, unsigned version of the present lot, which is now in the Museo Castelvecchio in Verona (inv. 1365-1B119). Differences between the two include the inclusion here of the folding chair, called a faldstool, with its decorative floral carving and prominent signature and the butterfly. The addition of the butterfly, which the Christ Child holds on a string, is a sweet iconographic reference to the Resurrection.
Caroto painted another, unsigned version of the present lot, which is now in the Museo Castelvecchio in Verona (inv. 1365-1B119). Differences between the two include the inclusion here of the folding chair, called a faldstool, with its decorative floral carving and prominent signature and the butterfly. The addition of the butterfly, which the Christ Child holds on a string, is a sweet iconographic reference to the Resurrection.