MARTINO DI BARTOLOMEO DI BIAGIO (ACTIVE PISA, LUCCA AND SIENA, 1398-1434) - photo 1
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MARTINO DI BARTOLOMEO DI BIAGIO (ACTIVE PISA, LUCCA AND SIENA, 1398-1434)

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07.12.2023 14:30UTC +00:00
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Lot 1 | MARTINO DI BARTOLOMEO DI BIAGIO (ACTIVE PISA, LUCCA AND SIENA, 1398-1434)
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£ 70 000 – 100 000
MARTINO DI BARTOLOMEO DI BIAGIO (ACTIVE PISA, LUCCA AND SIENA, 1398-1434)

The Martyrdom of Saint Ursula - a predella

tempera and gold on panel

13 ¾ x 17 ¼ in. (34.9 x 43.5 cm.)





Provenance

Art Market, Paris, as 'Nardo di Cione', where acquired by the following,

with Kleinberger Galleries, New York, since at least 1917; their sale, The Plaza Hotel, New York, 23 January 1918, lot 50A, as 'Allegretto Nuzi' ($725 to Chas. H. Jones).

V.G. Simkhovitch (1874-1959); his sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, 14 January 1922 (=3rd day), lot 485, as 'Allegretto Nuzi', where acquired for $675 by,

Rudolf Meyer Riefstahl (1880-1936), New York.

New York auction, 1940s.

Mr. and Mrs. William Muschenheim, New York, until at least 1957.

with French & Co., New York, from whom acquired by the following,

with Ernest Joresco, Chicago, from whom acquired by the present owners on 31 March 1963.



Literature

'Old Masters at Auction', American Art News, XVI, no. 15, 19 January 1918, pp. 3 and 5, illustrated, as 'Allegretto Nuzi'.

'Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture Sold at Auction', American Art Annual, XV, 1918, p. 317, as 'Allegretto Nuzi'.

'Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture Sold at Auction', American Art Annual, XIX, 1922, p. 313, as 'Allegretto Nuzi'.

B. Berenson, 'Missing Pictures of the Sienese Trecento - Part II', International Studies, XCVIII, November 1930, p. 32.

B. Berenson, Homeless Paintings of the Renaissance, Freiburg, 1969, p. 30.

F. Zeri and A.G. de Marchi, La Spezia, Museo Civico Amedeo Lia: dipinti, La Spezia, 1997, p. 236, under no. 103.



Exhibited

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, until at least 1957 (lent by Mr. and Mrs. William Muschenheim).
Artist:Martino Di Bartolomeo (1389 - 1434)
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