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ASSOCIATE OF GIOVANNI ANTONIO BOLTRAFFIO (MILAN 1466/67-1516)

Lot 40
10.06.2022 10:00UTC -05:00
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ID 770979
Lot 40 | ASSOCIATE OF GIOVANNI ANTONIO BOLTRAFFIO (MILAN 1466/67-1516)
Estimate value
$ 150 000 – 250 000
ASSOCIATE OF GIOVANNI ANTONIO BOLTRAFFIO (MILAN 1466⁄67-1516)
The Madonna and Child
oil on panel
21 x 15 1⁄4 in. (53.3 x 38.7 cm.)




Provenance

Giuseppe Colbacchini, Venice; his sale, A. Genolini, Milan, 16 April 1888, lot 76, as 'Leonardo da Vinci', illustrated.
(Cristoforo) Benigno Crespi (1833-1920), Milan; his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 4 June 1914, lot 9, as 'Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio' (10,000 francs).
Anguillara Collection.
with Bellini, Florence.
Achillito Chiesa; his sale, American Art Association, New York, 27 November 1925, lot 55 ($9,000).
Ercole Canessa (1868-1929), New York, by 1926.
Palma Collection, Rome.



Literature

G. Colbacchini, Quattro dipinti di sommi maestri : illustrati con note critiche, Bassano, 1887, pp. 130-133 and 159-172, illustrated, as 'Leonardo da Vinci'.
G. Carotti, 'G.A. Boltraffio', Gallerie nazionali italiane, Rome, 1899, IV, pp. 305-307 and 329, as 'Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio'.
A. Venturi, La Galleria Crespi in Milano, Milan, 1900, pp. 237-240, as 'Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio'.
B. Berenson, North Italian Painters of the Renaissance, New York and London, 1907, p. 171, as 'Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio'.
F. Malaguzzi Valeri, Catalogo della R. Pinacoteca di Brera, Bergamo, 1908, p. 165, as 'Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio'.
W. von Seidlitz, Leonardo da Vinci der Wendepunkt der Renaissance, Berlin, 1909, I, p. 275, as 'Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio'.
G. Pauli, 'Boltraffio', Allgemeines Lexicon, ed. U. Thieme and F. Becker, Leipzig, 1910, IV, p. 256, as 'Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio'.
'Appunti, La Madonna Crespi venduta a Parigi', Raccolta Vinciana, IX, 1914, p. 169, as 'Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio'.
A. Venturi, Storia dell'arte italiana, Milan, 1915, VII, part 4, pp. 1024-1025, as 'Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio'.
F. Bock, 'Leonardofragen', Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, 1916, XXXIX, p. 162, as 'Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio'.
F. Malaguzzi Valeri, La Corte di Ludovico il Moro. Gli artisti lombardi, Milan, 1917, III, p. 78, as 'Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio'.
G. Teall, 'Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio', The International Studio, 1926, LXXXV, no. 353, p. 24
A. Venturi, La pittura del Quattrocento nell'Alta Italia, Bologna, 1930, p. 47, as 'Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio'.
W. von Seidlitz, Leonardo da Vinci der Wendepunkt der Renaissance, Vienna, 1935, 2nd edition, p. 203, as 'Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio'.
A. Bellani, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, doctoral dissertation, University of Milan, 1936, pp. 72-73.
A. Venturi, Leonardo et la sua scuola, Novara, 1941, p. XXXIX, as 'Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio'.
F. Mazzini, La pittura del primo Cinquecento: Storia di Milano, 1957, VIII, part 9, p. 580, as 'Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio'.
T. Brachert, 'Ein unvollendetes Madonnagemälde von Leonardo da Vinci?', Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, 1967, pp. 67-68, as 'Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio'.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, 1968, p. 92, as 'Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio'.
Studio su l'opera Madonna e Bambino di Gian Antonio Boltraffio, private publication, undated.
M.T. Fiorio, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, un pittore milanese nel lume di Leonardo, Milan, 2000, pp. 180, 184, 203 and 213, no. E.7 and under nos. D3, D10 and D46.
Artist:Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (1466 - 1516)
Applied technique:Oil on panel
Art style:Renaissance
Place of origin:Milan, Italy, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings
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