ID 773290
Lot 34 | GIOVANNI DI BARTOLOMEO CRISTIANI DA PISTOIA (PISTOIA C. 1340-1398)
Estimate value
$ 500 000 – 700 000
The Last Communion and Martyrdom of Saint Lucy
tempera, silver and gold on panel
10 x 15 in. (25.5 x 38 cm.)
Provenance
(Possibly) Marchese Alfonso Tacoli Canacci (1726-1802), Parma.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 24 June 1964, lot 48, where acquired by the following,
with Julius Weitzner, New York and London.
Heinz Kisters, Kreuzlingen, circa 1970.
with Sotheby’s Private Sales, where acquired by the present owner in February 2009.
Literature
C. Seymour Jr., Early Italian Paintings in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1970, pp. 62-63, under no. 42.
F. Zeri and E.E. Gardner, Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Florentine School, New York, 1971, p. 39.
M. Boskovits, Pittura Fiorentina alla vigilia del Rinascimento, 1370-1400, Florence, 1975, pp. 317-318.
R. Fremantle, Florentine Gothic Painters, London, 1975, p. 258.
M. Laclotte, 'N'en déplaise à Cicognara: la collection Francillon', in Curiosité: Études d'histoire de l'art en l'honneur d'Antoine Schnapper, O. Bonfait et al., eds., Paris, 1998, p. 418, fig. 150.
A. Galli, 'Tavole toscane del Tre e Quattrocento nella collezione di Alfonso Tacoli Canacci', Invisibile agli occhi: atti della giornata di studio in ricordo di Lisa Venturini, N. Baldini, ed., Florence, 2007, pp. 20, 27, note 56, figs. 22, 23.
Exhibited
Lugano, Fondazione Thyssen-Bornemisza, 'Manifestatori delle cose miracolose': Arte italiana del '300 e '400 da collezioni in Svizzera e nel Liechtenstein, 7 April-30 June 1991, no. 75.
| Artist: | Giovanni Di Bartolomeo Cristiani (1340 - 1398) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Tempera |
| Medium: | Gold ground panel |
| Art style: | Baroque, Renaissance, Old Masters |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
| Artist: | Giovanni Di Bartolomeo Cristiani (1340 - 1398) |
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| Applied technique: | Painted, Tempera |
| Medium: | Gold ground panel |
| Art style: | Baroque, Renaissance, Old Masters |
| Place of origin: | Italy, Europe |
| Auction house category: | Paintings |
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