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From whom acquired in 2013.

Richard Offner first isolated this anonymous artist under the pseudonym "Master of the Two Madonnas," and Klara Steinweg bestowed his current name based on the Madonna and Child with Two Angels formerly in the Lazzaroni collection, Paris [1]. Active in the late trecento, the Master of the Lazzaroni Madonna completed the allegorical figures for the fresco in the Palazzo Comunale di San Miniato alongside Cenni di Francesco in 1393 [2].

This Vir dolorum displays stylistic affinites with the Madonna of Humility, Museé des Beaux-Arts, Dijon, and a painting of the same subject formerly in the Kisters collection, Basel, suggesting it, like the others, was executed in the artist's mature period [3]. Sonia Chiodo has endorsed the attribution of this work to the Master of the Lazzaroni Madonna and dates it to the 1380s or later.

1.  M. Boskovits, Pittura Fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento 1370-1400, Florence 1975, p. 239, note 169.

2.  Ibid., p. 128, reproduced fig. 323.

3. Ibid., reproduced fig. 413.