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Property from the Loyd Collection

Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, called Sandro Botticelli

The Virgin and Child enthroned

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December 4, 07:09 PM GMT

Estimate

2,000,000 - 3,000,000 GBP

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Property from the Loyd Collection


Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi, called Sandro Botticelli

Florence 1444/5–1510

The Virgin and Child enthroned


mixed media with gilding on panel, arch🔯ed top

83.3 x 44.9 cm.; 32¾ x 17⅞ in.

Oratorio of San Giuliano, in the Convent of San Giuliano, which was later bought and rebuilt by the Calasanzian order, via Faenza, Florence, by the early 19th century; 

Placed in the chapel of a convalescent home for the sick bretheren of the Calasanzian Order or Scuole Pie of Florence, Comezzano, near V𓃲aggio, Figline Valdarno, Province of Florence;  

By inheritance with the property to the Graziani family, remaining in situ until about 1900;

Giovanni Magherini Graziani (1852–1924), Poggita🐭zzi, Terranoꦡve Bracciolini, near Arezzo, and via Pinti, Florence;

By🧸 whom sold, in November 1903, to the dealer Elia Vཧolpi, Florence;

From whom bought by Harriet Sar🎐ah Jones Loyd, Lady Want🦂age (1837–1920), in May 1904;

Thence by descent at Lockinge 💯House, Wantage, and after 1944 at Betterton House, near Wantage, Berkshireও.

F. Fantozzi, Nuova Guida, ovvero descrizione storico-artistico-critica della città e contorni di Firenze, Florence 1842 and 1847, pp. 497–98, under 23﷽4 (as ‘un'effigie di Nostra Donna al primo Altare a destra, dꦓ'Ignoto ma valente pittore’); 

The Arundel Club, London 1904, no. 3, reproduced (as Botticelli);&nb🍸sp;

A.G. Temple, A Catalogue of Pictures, Forming the Collection of Lord and Lady Wantage, London 1905, pp. 15–16, no. 18a, reproduced (as Botticelli);

Lady Manners, ‘Lady Wantage's Collection’, in The Connoisseur, vol. 27, 1910, p. 162, reproduced p. 159 (as ‘Madꦚonna dei Pilastrini d’oro’; ‘which came from the chapel of a religious confraternity in the hill co🌊untry of Arezzo’);

B. Berenson, ‘Un Botticelli dimenticato’, in Dedalo, V, June 1924💫, pp. 28–41, reproduced p. 36, with a reconstruction of the Sant'Ambrogio altarpiece in which the heads of the Virgin and Child from the present panel are superimposed onto the corresponding figures that had been overpainted by a later hand, p. 40 (as workshop of Botticelli);

Y. Yashiro, Sandro Botticelli, London and Boston 1925, vol. I, pp. 19 and 233, under ‘Contemporary Copies and Versions’, ‘I. From Botticelli's Known Originals’ (as ‘a very caꦇreful copy of [the Sant'Ambrogio altarpiece], with such variations of the throne and of the Madonna's eyes as were necessary for a single figure picture’);

A. Venturi, Botticelli, Rome 1925, p. 118 (as ‘imitation of the central part of the Virgin and Child with six saints’ [‘the Sant'Amb🌃rogio alta✤rpiece’, now at the Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence]); 

B. Berenson, ‘A Neglected Altarpiece by Botticelli’, in Three Essays in Method, Oxford 1927, pp. 80–83 and 84, reproduced figs 87 and 91🍸, a reconstruction with heads of the Virgin and Child from the present panel superimposed onto the Sant'Ambrogio altarpiece (as workshop of Botticelli);๊ 

A.T. Loyd, Guide to the Pictures at Lockinge House, Wantage 1928, p. 6,🐼 no. 18a, as hanging in the Entrance Hall (as Bot🍨ticelli school);

R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, vol. XII, The Hague 1931, p. 271 (under ‘The School of Botticelli’♒, ‘a charming picture, very finely executed’);

Lord Balniel and K. Clark (eds), A Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of Italian Art..., London 1931, no🐟. 237 (no. ꦡ121) (as studio of Botticelli);

Pictures from Lockinge House, Wantage, Oxford 1934, no. 12 (as workshop of Bott♎icelli); 

C. Gamba, Botticelli, ꧅Milan 1936, pp. 104 and 226, reproduced fig. 25 (as a workshop replica of the altarpiece; ‘a beautiful Madonna’);

W. and E. Paatz, Die Kirchen von Florenz: ein kunstgeschichtliches Handbuch, Frankfurt 1941, vol. II﷽, pp. 356 and 358 n. 15 (as lost);

Catalogue of Paintings and Tapestries from Lockinge House, Wantage, Birmꦬingham 1945, no. 4 (as studio of Botticelli);

T. Cox, ‘The Wantage Collection from Lockinge House’, in The Connoisseur, vol. 117, June 1946, p. 7♊5 (as studio of Botticelli);

B. Berenson, ‘Un Botticelli dimenticato’, in Metodo e attribuzioni, F𝔉lorence 1947, pp. 139–42 and 144, reproduced figs 86 and 90, a reconstruction, as above (as workshop of Botticelli, copied from Botticelli's Sant'Ambrogio altarpiece); 

R. Salvini, Tutta la pittura del Botticelli, Milan 1958, vol. I, p. 68, reproduced pl. 129 (as ‘very beautiful; pr🌜obably executed under the supervision of the master’; incorrectly listed as sold in 1947, location unknown); 

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Florentine School, London 1963, vol. I,🍸 p. 3🦄6 (as studio version);

L. Parris (ed.), The Loyd Collection of Paintings and Drawings at Betterton House, Lockinge near Wantage, Berkshire,൲ London 1967, p. 3, no. 3, reproduced (as school of Bottcelli);

R. Lightbown, Sandro BotticelliComplete Catalogue, London ♑1978, vol. II, p. 27, under no. B13, and p🐷p. 115–16, no. C2, reproduced (under ‘Workshop and school pictures’; with incorrect dimensions);

G. Mandel, L'opera completa del Botticelli, Milan 1978, p. 88, no. 28, reproduced (as workshop of Botticeღlli, under the direct supervision of the master; incorrectly listed as formerly at Lockinge House);

R. De Angelis, Botticelli, Mꦡilan and New York 19🔯80, p. 24, no. 24, reproduced (as workshop of Botticelli); 

H. Horne, Alessandro Filipepi commonly called Sandro Botticelli, Painter of Florence. Appendix III: Catalogue of the works of Sandro Botticelli, and of his disciples and imitators, together with notices of those erroneously attributed to him in the public and private collections of Europe and America, C. Caneva (ed.), Florence 1987, p. 1🍎1, no. 30 (as school of Botticell⛎i; by an immediate follower of Botticelli, probably in his 'bottega' from the cartoon for the altarpiece now in Florence); 

N. Pons, Botticelli catalogo completo, Milan 1989, p. 5🍎8, no. 23, reproduced (l🅘isted under autograph works; as whereabouts unknown);

F. Russell (ed.), The Loyd Collection of Paintings, Drawings and Sculptures, privately printed,🎶 1991, pp. vi and 2, no. 3, reproduced pl. 1 (as workshop of Botticelli);

D. Dombrowski, Die religiösen Gemälde Sandro Botticellis: Malerei als pia philosophia, Munich 2010, p. 294 n. 351 and reproduced p. 556, fig. 167 (as workshop of Botticelli, 1480s; incorrectly denoted as formerly at Loc♏kinge House). 

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters..., 7 January – 16 March 1907, no♑. 24 (as Botticelli);

London, Royal Academy, Italian Art, 1 January – 8 March 1🤡930, no. 121 (as studio oജf Botticelli); 

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Pictures from Lockinge House, Wantage, 1934–35, n♎o. 12 (as workshop of Botticelli); 

Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, Paintings and Tapestries from Lockinge House, Wantage, 1945, no. 4 (as studio of Botticelli).