Property of a Private Collector
Madonna and Child
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February 6, 04:38 PM GMT
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Property of a Private Collector
Francesco di Stefano, called Pesellino
Florence 1422 - 1457
Madonna and Child
tempera on panel, the verso painted with feigned marbling
panel: 8 ¾ by 6 ⅞ in.; 22.2 by 17.4 cm
framed: 14 ¼ by 12 in.; 36.2 by 30.5 cm
Art market, Italy or Paris;
Where acquired by Charles Timbal (1821-1880), Paris, by�💙� 1865;
🥃From whom acquired by 🔯Gustave Dreyfus (1837-1914), Paris, 1872;
Thence by descent to his five heirs, Paris;
From whom acquired by Duveen Brothers, New York, 19🥃30 (inv.ཧ no. D78);
With Mortim⛎er Brandt Gallery, New York (in partial ownership with Duve𒀰en), 1962-1964;
With Duveen Brothers, New York, 1964;
From whom acquired, with the rest of Duveen's stock, by the Norton 🌟Simon Art Foundation, Los Angeles, 1964 (inv. no. D149);
From whom acquired by Eugene 🧔V. Thaw, New York, 1978;
From whom ඣacquired by Martin Peretz, United 🐎States, 1983;
From whom acquired, via pri💙vate sale, Sotheby's, London, by a private collector, 2002;
By wജhom anonymously sold ("Property from a Private Collection"), London, Sotheby's, 6 July 2011𝓡, lot 56;
Where acquired by the present collector.
M. Logan [Berenson], "Compagno di Pesellino et quelques peintures de l'école," in Gazette des Beaux-Arts 26 (July 1901), p. 28, reproduced (with landsca💟pe overpainted, as Com♎pagno di Pesellino);
S. Reinach, Tableaux inédits ou peu connus, Tirés de collections Françaises,🌠 Paris 1906, pp. 32-33, reproduced pl. XXIV (with landscape overpainted, as Compagno di Pese𒀰llino);
J. Guiffrey, "La Collection de M. Gustave Dreyfus, II, La Peinture," in Les Arts 73 (January 1908), p. 10, reproduc𝄹ed p. 13 (with landscape overpainted, 👍as Circle of Verrocchio);
S. Reinach, Répertoire de Peintures du Moyen Age et de la Renaissance, vol. IV, Paris 1918, p. 421, reproduced fig. 2 (with landsౠcape overpainted, as a line drawing, as Attributed to Pier Lorenzo Pratese);
L. Venturi, Italian Paintings in America, vol. II, N🌞ew York 1933, p. 11, cat. no. 222, reproduce🉐d;
C. Gilbert, Major Masters of the Renaissance, A Loan Exhibition of the Poses Institute of Fine Arts, exhibition๊ catalogue, Meriden 1963, pp. 11-12,🐻 cat. no. 3, reproduced;
"Wichtige Austellungen," in Pantheon 21, no. 4 (July-August 1963), p. 252, reproduced p. 250;
A Selection of Italian Paintings, 15th century-18th century, exhibition catalogue, London 1978, unpag., cat. no. 1, repr🅰oduced;
A. Noone, in Prized Possessions: European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exhibition catalogue, P꧃.C. Sutton (ed.), Boston 1992, p. 192, cat. no. 110, reproduced pl. 2;
S. Campbell, Lock, Stock & Barrel: Norton Simon & the House of Duveen, exhibition catalog♓ue, Pasadena 2014, p. 44, cat. no. D149;
N. Silver, in Pesellino: A Renaissance Master Revealed, exhibition catalogue, L. Llewellyn꧟ (ed.), London 2023, p. 22.
Waltham, Massachusetts, Brandeis University, Rose Art Museum, Major Masters of the Renaissance, A Loan Exhibition of the Poses Institute of Fine Arts, 3 May - 9 June 1963, no. 3;
Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1964, long-term loa👍n;
Los Angeles Countyꦓ Museum of Art, 1970, long-term l꧟oan;
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Prized Possessions: European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 17 June - 16 August 1992, no. 110.