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GUIDO DI PIERO, FRA GIOVANNI DA FIESOLE, POSTHUMOUSLY KNOWN AS FRA ANGELICO (NEAR VICCHIO, C. 1395/1400-1455, ROME)

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Lot 24 | GUIDO DI PIERO, FRA GIOVANNI DA FIESOLE, POSTHUMOUSLY KNOWN AS FRA ANGELICO (NEAR VICCHIO, C. 1395/1400-1455, ROME)
GUIDO DI PIERO, FRA GIOVANNI DA FIESOLE, POSTHUMOUSLY KNOWN AS FRA ANGELICO (NEAR VICCHIO, C. 1395/1400-1455, ROME)

The Crucifixion with the Virgin, Saint John the Baptist and the Magdalen

tempera on gold ground panel, arched, the original engaged frame regilded

25 1/8 x 15 in. (59.7 x 34.2 cm.)





Provenance

(Probably) William Bingham Baring, 2nd Lord Ashburton (1799-1864), Bath House, London, and by inheritance to his widow, Louisa, Lady Ashburton (1827-1903), Kent House, London or Melchett Court, Hampshire, and through her daughter,

The Hon. Mary Florence Baring (1860-1902), wife of William Compton, 5th Marquess of Northampton (1851-1913), and their second son, Lord Spencer Compton (1893-1915).



Literature

F. Russell, ‘An Early Crucifixion by Fra Angelico’, The Burlington Magazine, CXXXVIII, May 1996, pp. 315-7, where dated between altarpieces assigned to 1419-21 and 1424-5.

G. Bonsanti, Beato Angelico: Catalogo completo, Florence, 1998, p. 118, no. 15, where dated to around 1424.

L. Kanter, in ed. L. Kanter and P. Palladino, Fra Angelico, exhibition catalogue, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and New Haven, 2005, pp. 76-7, fig. 46, where dated to around 1421-2.

D.C. Ahl, Fra Angelico, London, 2008, pp. 31-3, pl. 29, where dated to around 1419-20.

G. de Simone, in ed. A. Zuccari, G. Morello and G. de Simone, Beato Angelico: L’alba del Rinascimento, exhibition catalogue, Musei Capitolini, Rome, 2009, p. 152, where dated to just before the Pisa Madonna di Cedri of around 1423.

G. Utari, in ed. G. Damiani, Fra Angelico et les maîtres de la Lumière, exhibition catalogue, Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 2011, p. 154, under no. 25, as an ‘oeuvre de jeunesse de l’artiste’.
Artist:Fra Angelico (1397 - 1455)
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