Master Paintings
Master Paintings
Property from an Important Collection
The Lamentation with Saints Francis, Anthony of Padua, a Bishop Saint, Catherine of Alexandria and Sebastian
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May 25, 03:13 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 150,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property from an Important Collection
The Master of the Fiesole Epiphany
active in Florence circa 1500
The Lamentation with Saints Francis, Anthony of Padua, a Bishop Saint, Catherine of Alexandria and Sebastian
tempera on panel
panel: 34 by 33⅞ in.; 86.5 by 86 cm.
framed: 50¾ by 45½ in.; 128.9 by 115.6 cm.
Baron Lazzaroni, Paris;
With Joseph Duveen, New York;
With John Levy Galleries, New York, by 1930;
Oscar. B. Cintas, New York;
His sale, New York, Parke-Bernet, 26 April 1963, lot 6 (as Cosimo Rosselli);
There acquired by Acquavella Galleries, New York;
From whom acquired by the family of the current owners.
B. Berenson, Italian Paintings of the Renaissance, 1932, p. 492; (as by Cosimo Rosselli);
Connoisseur, August 1963, p. 263, reproduced fig. 8 (as Rosselli);
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, London 1963, vol. 1, p. 190 (as an early Cosimo Rosselli);
E. Fahy, Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandaio, Phd Diss., Harvard University, 1968, p. 170 (as by the Master of the Fiesole Epiphany);
N. Pons, “Una bottega fiorentina di pittura nella seconda metà del XV secolo: Jacopo del Sellaio e compagni,” Phd Diss., Università degli studi di Roma “La Sapienza”-Università degli studi di Firenze. Florence 1992, p. 66, reproduced plate 135 (as Master of the Fiesole Epiphany);
E. Fahy, “The Este Predella Panels and other works by the Master of the Fiesole Epiphany,” in Nuovi Studi, 2001/2002, p. 24 (as by the Master of the Fiesole Epiphany).
Caracas, Venezuela, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Exposicion Grandes Maestros, 5 November - 17 December 1967 (as by Cosimo Rosselli).