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GENTILE DA FABRIANO (FABRIANO C.1385-1427 ROME)

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$ 400 000
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Lot 47 | GENTILE DA FABRIANO (FABRIANO C.1385-1427 ROME)
GENTILE DA FABRIANO (FABRIANO C.1385-1427 ROME)

Saint Paul the Hermit

tempera, oil and gold on panel, a fragment

11 x 8 1/2 in. (28 x 21.5 cm.)





Provenance

The church of Santa Sofia, Venice, as part of a polyptych for the altar of Sant’Antonio Abate, founded by Francesco di Enrico Sandei, circa 1408 and until at least 1648.

Charles A. Loeser (1864-1928), Florence; (†) his sale, [The Property of the Late Charles Loeser removed from Torria Gattia, Florence, Sold by the Order of his Heirs], Sotheby's, London, 9 December 1959, lot 19 as 'G. da Fabriano', £380 to Field.

Mr. and Mrs. Fielding Lewis Marshall, London; their sale, [The Marshall Collection of Old Master Paintings: The Property of Mr. & Mrs. Fielding Lewis Marshall], Bonham's, Knightsbridge, 28 March 1974, lot 38.

with Ronald Cook, London.

[Property of a Lady]; Christie's, London, 22 April 1994, lot 55,

Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.



Literature

F. Sansovino, Venetia Citta Nobilissima, et Singolare, Venice, 1581, unnumbered (listed under Santa Sofia).

C. Ridolfi, Le Meraviglie dell'arte, Venice, 1648, p. 54, erroneously described as in the church of San Felice.

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, I, London, 1968, p. 164, as 'Bust of a Hermit Saint'.

K. Christiansen, Gentile da Fabriano, London, 1982, p. 133, no. XLVIII, pl. 107, under 'Attributed and related works'.

K. Christiansen, 'La Pittura a Venezia e in Veneto nel primo Quattrocento', La Pittura in Italia: II Quattrocento, I, M. Natale ed., Milan, 1987, p. 121, fig. 157, as 'Gentile da Fabriano ()'.

A. De Marchi, Gentile de Fabriano: un viaggio nella pittura italiana alla fine del gotico, Milan, 1992, pp. 57, 91, note 64, fig. 33.

T. Franco, Atlante, Trecento. Pittori gotici a Bolzano, Trent, 2002, pp. 130-134.

M. Ceriana and E. Daffra, Gentile da Fabriano: Il polittico di Valle Romita, M. ed., Milan, 1993, pp. 27-30.

D. Benati in Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna, Catalogo generale, 1. Dal Duecento a Francesco Francia, Venice, 2004, pp. 180-181, under no. 621-b.

A. De Marchi, M. Ceriana, E. Daffra and K. Christiansen in Gentile da Fabriano and the other Renaissance, L. Laureati and L. Mochi Onori ed., Milan, 2006, pp. 124-125, 141-142, 144, illustrated p. 143.

M. Bollati, A. Pizzati in Gentile da Fabriano: Studi e ricerche, A. De Marchi, L. Laureati and L. Mochi Onori eds., Milan, 2006, pp. 107, 109-110 and p. 165 illustrated.

M. Minardi, 'Gentile da Fabriano, Espaces ouverts à l'interprétation,' Perspective: La Revue de l'INHA, I, 4, 2006, p. 616.

A. Caleca and B. Toscano, Nuovi studi sulla pittura tardogotica. Palazzo Trinci, Livorno, 2009, p. 35, fig. 50.

C.B. Strehlke and M. Israëls, The Bernard and Mary Berenson collection of European paintings at I Tatti, Milan, 2016, p. 184, illustrated.





Exhibited

Fabriano, Italy, Spedale di Santa Maria del Buon Gesù, Gentile da Fabriano and the other Renaissance, 20 April-23 July 2006, no. III.4.
Artist:Gentile da Fabriano (1370 - 1427)
Applied technique:Oil, Painted, Tempera
Medium:Gold ground panel
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
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