ID 1239205
Lot 12 | GIOVANNI PIETRO RIZZOLI, CALLED GIAMPIETRINO (ACTIVE MILAN, C. 1495-1550)
Estimate value
£ 200 000 – 300 000
The Madonna suckling the infant Christ
oil on panel
26 1/8 x 20 3/8 in. (66.5 x 51.7 cm.)
Provenance
John Howard, 15th Earl of Suffolk and 8th Earl of Berkshire (1739-1820), Charlton Park, Malmesbury, Wiltshire, and by descent to his son,
Thomas Howard, 16th Earl of Suffolk and 9th Earl of Berkshire (1776-1851), and by descent to his son,
Charles John Howard, 17th Earl of Suffolk and 10th Earl of Berkshire (1804-1876), and by descent to his son,
Henry Charles Howard, 18th Earl of Suffolk and 11th Earl of Berkshire (1833-1898), and by descent to his son,
Henry Molyneaux Paget Howard, 19th Earl of Suffolk and 12th Earl of Berkshire (1877-1917), and by descent to his son,
Charles Henry George Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk and 13th Earl of Berkshire (1906-1941), and by inheritance to his wife,
Mimi Forde-Pigott, The Countess of Suffolk and Berkshire (1897-1966), Charlton Park, Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
with Spink & Son, London, where acquired in January 1955 by the following,
with Edward Speelman and Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, where acquired by the family of the sellers at the following,
Anonymous sale [Property from a Scottish Family Collection]; Sotheby's, London, 6 July 2016, lot 29, when acquired by the present owner.
Literature
G. Scharf, Artistic and Descriptive Notes on the Most Remarkable Pictures in the British Institution Exhibition of the Ancient Masters, London, 1858, p. 76, no. 11, as 'a distant follower of Da Vinci'.
B. Berenson, North Italian Painters of the Renaissance, New York and London, 1907, p. 233.
A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1912, IV, London, 1914, p. 1583, under Leonardo da Vinci.
B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, I, London, 1968, p. 168.
'Notable works of Art now on the Market', The Burlington Magazine, XCVII, July 1955, p. 237, pl. II.
'At the London Galleries III. Fine Old Masters at Agnew's', Illustrated London News, CCXXVII, 26 November 1955, p. 915, illustrated.
C. Geddo, 'La Madonna di Castel Vitoni del Giampietrino', Achademia Leonardi Vinci, VII, 1994, p. 62, note 29, fig. 28.
Exhibited
London, British Institution, 1818, no. 3, as 'Leo. da Vinci' (lent by the Earl of Suffolk).
London, British Institution, 1851, no. 2, as 'L. da Vinci' (lent by the Earl of Suffolk).
London, British Institution, 1858, no. 11, as 'L. da Vinci' (lent by the Earl of Suffolk).
Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2019-2024, on loan.
Auction house category: | Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Paintings |
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