ID 1239203
Lot 9 | MASTER OF THE LANDAU FINALY TRIUMPHS (ACTIVE FLORENCE, C. 1440-60)
Estimate value
£ 400 000 – 600 000
The Triumph of Love and the Triumph of Chastity
tempera on gold ground panel, in an engaged frame
20 1/8 x 72 ¼ in. (51 x 183.5 cm.)
Provenance
Sir William Neville Abdy, 2nd Bt. (1844-1910), 21 Park Square East, London, and The Elms, Newdigate; (†) his sale, Christie's, London, 5 May 1911, lot 98 (part), as 'Dello Delli', when acquired for 690 gns. by Thos. Agnew & Sons on behalf of,
Walter Spencer Morgan Burns (1872-1929), North Mymms Park, Hertfordshire, where displayed in the South Hall, and by descent to his son,
Major-General Sir George Burns, K.C.V.O., G.B., D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C. (1911-1997); Sotheby's, London, 19 April 1967, lot 10, as 'The Master of the Adimari Cassone'.
Private collection, and by descent.
Literature
T. Borenius, 'Unpublished Cassone Panels-V', The Burlington Magazine, XLI, no. 234, September 1922, pp. 104-105 and 109, pl. A, as 'possibly by Andrea di Giusto'.
P. Schubring, Cassoni: Truhen und Truhenbilder der italienischen Frührenaissance, Leipzig, 1923, p. 421, no. 908, fig. 908, as 'Andrea di Giusto?'.
R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, IX, The Hague, 1927, pp. 253-254.
A. Oswald, ‘North Mymms Park, II’, Country Life, LXXV, 20 January 1934, pp. 68-69, visible in pls. 4 and 7.
L.S. Malke, Die Ausbreitung des verschollenen Urbildzyklus der Petrarcatrionfi durch Cassonipaare in Florenz unter Berücksichtigung des Gloriatriumphs, PhD dissertation, Freie Universität, Berlin, 1973, pp. 90-97, as a later(?) copy after the painting in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.
E. Callmann, 'Subjects from Boccaccio in Italian Painting, 1375-1525', Studi sul Boccaccio, XXIII, 1995, pp. 42-43, no. 29, fig. 5.
L. Sbaraglio, Virtù d’amore: pittura nuziale nel quattrocento fiorentino, exhibition catalogue, Florence, 2010, pp. 123 and 277, pl. 9a.
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