Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction

Old Master & 19th Century Paintings Evening Auction

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The Property of a Private Collector

Giovanni di Corraduccio

A triptych: The Virgin and Child enthroned with Saints and scenes from the lives of the Virgin and St Clare

Live auction begins on:

July 3, 06:00 PM GMT

Estimate

200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

The Property of a Private Collector


Giovanni di Corraduccio

Foligno, doc. 1404–37

A triptych: (central panel) The Virgin and Child enthroned with Saints Catherine of Alexandria, Onuphrius, James the Greater[?], Margaret of Antioch, Francis of Assisi and Louis of Toulouse; Saints Paul and Peter in roundels above; and, in an upper compartment, Christ on the Cross with the Virgin and St John the Evangelist; (left wing) St Michael the Archangel and St Anthony Abbot; and, above, the Dormition of the Virgin; (right wing) The Annunciation; and, above, the Death of St Clare


tempera on panel, gold ground, shaped top, in an engaged frame

central panel: 105 x 55 cm.; 41⅜ x 21⅝ in.

each wing: 98.5 x 45 cm.; 38¾ x 17¾ in.

overall: 126 x 159.5 cm.; 49⅝ x 62¾ in.

Elia Volpi (1858–1938), Florence, until 1927;

His sale, New York, American Art Association, 31 March – 2 April 1927, lot 377 (as Umbro-Sienese, XIV Century), for $1600, to Keller and Funaro;

Hans Leuchter (b. 1901), Munich, 1964;

By whom sold (‘The Property of Herr Forstmeister Hans Leuchter of Munich’), London, Sotheby’s, 3 December 1969, lot 70 (as Cola Petruccioli), for £17,000, to ‘Giovanello’;

Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 8 December 1971, lot 56 (as Cola di Petruccioli), for £9,000, to ‘Holstein’; 

Acquired by the father of the present owner.

F. Zeri, ‘Tre argomenti umbri’, in Bolletino d'Arte, 48, January–June 1963, p. 43 n. 7 (as Giovanni di Corraduccio);

F. Santi, ‘Un capolavore Orvietano’, in Pantheon, November–December 1964, pp. 358–62, reproduced, with detail in colour (as Cola Petruccioli?);

G. Previtali, ‘Affreschi di Cola Petruccioli’, in Paragone, 17, 1966, 193, p. 34;

F. Zeri, ‘Un aggiunta a Giovanni di Corraduccio’, in Diari di lavoro 2, Turin 1976, p. 20 ff.; 

P. Scarpellini, Giovanni di Corraduccio, exh. cat., Foligno 1976, pp. 27–29 and 58–59 (as Giovanni di Corraduccio, datable to the late 14th or early 15th centuries);

M. Boskovits, ‘Osservazioni sulla pittura tardogotica nelle Marche’, in Rapporti artistici fra le Marche e l'Umbria, Atti del Convegno di studio, Fabbriano–Gubbio, 8–9 June 1974, Perugia 1977, p. 41 (as Giovanni di Corraduccio, datable to the late 14th or early 15th centuries);  

E. Neri Lusanna, ‘Recensione: Pietro Scarpellini, Giovanni di Corraduccio, Foligno 1976’, in Paragone, 29, 1978, 335, p. 98; 

C. Galassi in Iconografia musicale in Umbria nel XV secolo, P.M. Della Porta, C. Fratini, E. Genovesi and E. Lunghi (eds), Assisi 1987, p. 68;  

F. Todini, La Pittura Umbra, Milan 1989, vol. I, p. 83 and vol. II, p. 263, reproduced fig. 577 (as Giovanni di Corraduccio);

E. Lunghi, ‘Pittori di Foligno e pitture a Foligno e dintorni’, in Pittura a Foligno 1439–1502. Fonti e studi. Un bilancio, B. Toscano (ed.), Foligno 2000, p. 178;

M.R. Silvestrelli, in Raccolta d'arte, 2014, p. 243; 

E. Zappasodi, ‘Sorores reclusae’. Spazi di clausura e immagini dipinte in Umbria fra XII e XIV secolo, Florence 2018, p. 94 (as Giovanni di Corraduccio);

A. De Marchi in Federico Zeri e Milano. Giorno per giorno nella pittura, A. Bacchi and A. Di Lorenzo (eds), exh. cat., Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan, Cinisello Balsamo 2021, p. 44 (as Giovanni di Corraduccio, datable to slightly after 1415);

G. Mancini in Narrazioni Fiorite, Trittici di Giovanni di Corraduccio per Trevi, A. De Marchi (ed.), exh. cat., Complesso Museale di San Francesco, Trevi, 2022, p. 20 under no. 1 and p. 44 under no. 2, pp. 66–64, no. 3, reproduced in colour p. 62, as details pp. 65–70 (as Giovanni di Corraduccio, c. 1415);

A. De Marchi, ‘Il sermo rusticus di Giovanni di Corraduccio: la "Passione degli Umbri", il caso di Trevi e le tavole narrative per le monache’, in Narrazioni Fiorite, Trittici di Giovanni di Corraduccio per Trevi, A. De Marchi (ed.), exh. cat., Complesso Museale di San Francesco, Trevi, 2022, pp. 93, 97, 99, 101, 107, 122, 127, 130–31, reproduced pp. 92, fig. 1 (to scale with other polyptychs by the artist), 96, fig. 3, 107, fig. 18, 122, fig. 47 (as Giovanni di Corraduccio, datable to slightly after 1415);

G. Mancini, ‘I monasteri femminili di trevi tra Trecento e Quattrocento. Un contesto per i trittici di Giovanni di Corraduccio’, in Narrazioni Fiorite, Trittici di Giovanni di Corraduccio per Trevi, A. De Marchi (ed.), exh. cat., Complesso Museale di San Francesco, Trevi, 2022, pp. 147–48.