ID 1443191
Lot 104 | DON SILVESTRO DEI GHERARDUCCI (FLORENCE 1339-1399)
Estimate value
£ 30 000 – 50 000
The Madonna of Humility
tempera on gold ground panel with its original painted faux porphyry reverse, in an engaged frame
14 3/8 x 11 3/8 in. (36.5 x 28.8 cm.)
Provenance
Odoardo Winspeare, from whom acquired by the following,
with Achille de Clemente, Florence, 1933, as 'Attributed to Andrea di Bartolo'.
Dr. Anton F. Philips (1874–1951), Eindhoven, and by descent.
Literature
D.C. Shorr, The Christ Child in Devotional Images in Italy during the XIV Century, New York, 1954, pp. 74, 89, Type 10 (Simonesque type), Florence no. 7, illustrated, as 'Master of the Cionesque Humility'.
M. Boskovits, Pittura Fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento 1370-1400, Florence, 1975, p. 422.
R. Offner, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, H. Maginnis, ed., A Legacy of Attributions, The Fourteenth Century, supplement, New York, 1981, p. 31, fig. 58, as 'Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci (Master of the Cionesque Humility)'.
M. Eisenberg, Lorenzo Monaco, Princeton, 1989, p. 92.
G. Freuler, A Critical and Historical Corpus of Florentine Painting, M. Boskovits, ed., Section IV, VII, Part II, Tendencies of Gothic in Florence: Don Silvestro dei Gherarducci, Florence, 1997, pp. 420-421, pl. XLIV.
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