ALESSANDRO FILIPEPI, CALLED SANDRO BOTTICELLI (FLORENCE 1444/5-1510)

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Lot 25 | ALESSANDRO FILIPEPI, CALLED SANDRO BOTTICELLI (FLORENCE 1444/5-1510)
ALESSANDRO FILIPEPI, CALLED SANDRO BOTTICELLI (FLORENCE 1444/5-1510)

Madonna of the Magnificat

tempera, oil and gold on panel, tondo

Diameter: 24 3/4 in. (62.9 cm.)





Provenance

Rev. J.M. Rhodes, Florence (acquired in Florence in the late 19th century).

Ayerst Hooker Buttery, London.

Julius Böhler, Munich (1926).

Thomas Agnew & Sons, London (acquired from the above, 16 November 1951).

Mount Trust Collection (Captain and Mrs. Vivian F. Bulkeley-Johnson) (acquired from the above, 31 December 1951); sale, Christie's, London, 1 December 1978, lot 113 (as Botticelli and Workshop).

The Matthiesen Gallery, London; P. & D. Colnaghi & Co., London and Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York (by 1978).

Barbara Piasecka Johnson Collection (acquired from the above, 1980).

Acquired from the above through Matthiesen Fine Art by the late owner, 1999.



Literature

M. Hauptmann, Der Tondo: Ursprung, Bedeutung und Geschichte des Italienischen Rundbildes in Relief und Malerei, Frankfurt am Main, 1936, p. 190, no. 3 (under note 2, as a ‘Wiederholung’).

D. Sutton, "The Mount Trust Collection" in The Connoisseur, October 1960, vol. CXLVI, no. 588, p. 103 (illustrated, p. 104, fig. 5; as Botticelli).

St. J. Gore, "In Memoriam: Horace Buttery" in Apollo, vol. LXXVII, June 1963, p. 495 (illustrated, fig. 2, p. 495; as Botticelli).

"The Early Renaissance in Tuscany" in The Burlington Magazine, March 1965, vol. CVII, no. 744, p. 109 (as Botticelli).

R. Lightbown, Sandro Botticelli: Complete Catalogue, London, 1978, vol. II, p. 44 (under the entry for the Uffizi Madonna of the Magnificat, no. B29, as a reduced version).

D. Sutton, "I. Early Italian Painting Reconsidered" in Apollo, vol. CXXV, p. 6 (illustrated, p. 6, fig. 5; as Botticelli).

B.L. Brown, ed., 2001: An Art Odyssey 1500-1720, Classicism, Mannerism, Caravaggism & Baroque, exh. cat., London, 2001, p. 30 (illustrated in color, p. 31; as Botticelli).

A. Cecchi, Botticelli, Milan, 2005, p. 279, note 70 (as Workshop of Botticelli).

F. Zöllner, Sandro Botticelli, Munich and New York, 2005, p. 210 (under no. 36, as a contemporary copy or replica).

P. Matthiesen, Visions & Ecstasy: G.B. Castiglione’s St Francis, exh. cat., London, 2013, p. 16 (illustrated, p. 17, fig. 2; as Botticelli).

R.J.M. Olson, "Botticelli’s Madonna of the Magnificat: New Discoveries about its Iconography, Patron and Serial Repetition" in Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510): Artist and Entrepreneur in Renaissance Florence, Proceedings of the International Conference held at the Dutch University for Art History, Florence, 20-21 June 2014, Florence, 2015, pp. 140-145 (illustrated, p. 141, fig. 7; as Botticelli and Workshop).

M. Gianeselli in Botticelli: Artiste & Designer, A. Debenedetti, ed., Paris and Brussells, 2021, exh. cat., p. 190 (under no. 43, as a variant).



Exhibited

London, The National Gallery, 1960-1978 (on extended loan).

London, Agnews, Horace Buttery, 1902-1962: A Memorial Exhibition, June-June 1963, p. 8, no. 13 (as Botticelli).

London, Wildenstein & Co., Ltd., The Art of Painting in Florence and Siena from 1250-1500, February-April 1965, no. 60 (illustrated, fig. 54; as Botticelli).

Warsaw, Royal Castle, Opus Sacrum: The Collection of Barbara Piasecka Johnson, April-July 1990, pp. 88 and 90-93, no. 13 (illustrated in color, p. 89; entry by L. Puppi; as Botticelli and workshop).

London, The National Gallery, Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470’s, October 1999-January 2000, p. 328, no. 84 (illustrated in color, p. 329; entry by N. Penny; as Botticelli).

Seattle Art Museum, April 2007-January 2008 (on loan, as Botticelli).

San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Truth & Beauty: The Pre-Raphaelites & The Old Masters, June-September 2018, p. 152 (illustrated in color, pl. 71; as Botticelli).

Seattle Art Museum, A Cultural Legacy: A Series of Paintings from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, November 2019-March 2020 (as Botticelli).



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