Master Paintings Part II

Master Paintings Part II

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Property from a California Private Collection

Master of 1493

Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from a California Private Collection

Master of 1493

Florence active in the second half of the 15th century

Madonna and Child with Saint John the Baptist


tempera and oil on panel, shaped top

panel: 36 by 23 ⅝ in.; 91.4 by 60.0 cm

framed: 48 ½ by 30 in.; 123.2 by 76.2 cm

Bishop Burton Parochial Church Council, Kingston-upon-Hull;

By whom sold, London, Sotheby’s, 19 April 1967, lot 11 (as B. di Giovanni);

Where acquired by Mr. Betts, London;

With Georges Marlier, Brussels, June 1967;

Private collection;

By whom anonymously sold, (“Property of a Private Family Collection”), New York, Sotheby’s, 25 January 2001, lot 61 (as Attributed to the Master of the Fiesole Epiphany);

With Fabrizio Moretti, London;

Anonymous sale, New York, Sotheby's, 28 January 2010, lot 241 (as Attributed to the Master of the Fiesole Epiphany);

Where acquired.

E. Fahy, "Bartolommeo di Giovanni Reconsidered," in Apollo 97 (May 1973), p. 269 (as Bartolommeo di Giovanni);

E. Fahy, Some Followers of Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1976, p. 161, no. 81, reproduced fig. 30 (as Bartolommeo di Giovanni);

E. Fahy, "The Este Predella Panels and other works by the Master of the Fiesole Epiphany," in Nuovi Studi 2001/2002, 2003, p. 23 (as Master of the Fiesole Epiphany);

C. Daly, "Thinking Through a Tondo by the Master of the Fiesole Epiphany," in Journal of the Walters Art Museum 77 (2024), https://journal.thewalters.org/volume/77/essay/tondo/ (as Master of 1493).

Brussels, Galerie Robert Finck, Collection de tableaux anciens de XVe au XVlle siècle, 1972, no. 3;

San Diego, Timken Museum of Art, June - September 2017, on loan.

We are grateful to Dr. Christopher Daly for his assistance cataloguing this work.