GIOVANNI DI PAOLO (SIENA C. 1399-1482)

Lot 110
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Lot 110 | GIOVANNI DI PAOLO (SIENA C. 1399-1482)
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GIOVANNI DI PAOLO (SIENA C. 1399-1482)

The Death of Saint Catherine of Siena

tempera and gold on panel, marouflaged

9 3/4 x 10 1/4 in. (24.8 x 26 cm.)





Provenance

Commissioned from the artist as part of an altarpiece for the Spedale of Santa Maria della Scala, Siena, in 1447.

Acquired by Johann Anton Ramboux (1790-1866), Cologne, in Siena, probably in 1838; his deceased sale, Heberle, Cologne, 23 May 1867, lot 113, where acquired by Professor A. Müller, Düsseldorf, on behalf of,

Karl Anton, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1811-1885), Sigmaringen.

Dr. Hans Wendland (b. 1880), Basel, Lugano and later Paris, by 1913; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 26 October 1921, lot 15, where acquired by the following,

with J. Féral, Paris, and by whom sold in 1921 to,

Adolphe Stoclet (1871-1949), Brussels.

with Robert Langdon Douglas (1864-1951), London, and from whom acquired by the following,

John Russell Vanderlip (1860-1935), Minneapolis, circa 1930, and by whom bequeathed in 1935 to,

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and by whom deaccessioned in 1958.

with Julius Weitzner, New York.

with E.V. Thaw & Co., Inc., New York, where acquired by the present owner in 1985.



Literature

Abate G.G. Carli, Notizie di Belle Arti (Siena, Biblioteca Comunale, ms., circa 1775), cod. vii-20, f. 86v (transcribed in C. Brandi, 'Giovanni di Paolo,' Le Arti, III, 1941, pp. 320-321).

J.A. Ramboux, Katalog der Gemälde alter italienischer Meister (1221-1640) in der Sammlung des Conservator J.A. Ramboux, Cologne, 1862, p. 22, no. 121.

P. Bautier, 'I primitivi italiani della collezione Stoclet a Bruxelles', Cronache d'Arte, V, 1927, pp. 315-318.

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford, 1932, p. 245.

C. Brandi, La Regia Pinacoteca di Siena, Rome, 1933, p. 96.

B. Berenson, Pitture Italiane del Rinascimento, Milan, 1936, p. 211.

J. Pope-Hennessy, Giovanni di Paolo, 1403-1483, New York, 1938, pp. 130-134, no. 121, pl. XXXIa.

C. Brandi, 'Giovanni di Paolo,' Le arti, III, no. 4, 1941, pp. 230-250; no. 5, pp. 316-341; Reprinted, Florence, 1947, pp. 36-39.

J. Pope-Hennessy, Sienese Quattrocento Painting, Oxford and New York, 1947, pp. 138-139, 196.

C. Brandi, Quattrocentisti senesi, Milan, 1949, pp. 98-100, 201-207.

G.M. Coor, 'Quattrocento-Gemälde aus der Sammlung Ramboux,' Wallraf-Richartz Jahrbuch, XXI, 1959, pp. 82-85.

E.O. de Fernandez-Gimenez, 'Giovanni di Paolo: The Life of St. Catherine of Sienna,' The Cleveland Museum of Art Bulletin, LIV, 1967, pp. 103-111.

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, I, New York, 1968, p. 178.

H.J. Ziemke, 'Ramboux und die sienesische Kunst,' Städel-Jahrbuch, n.s. II, 1969, pp. 287-288, note 8.

H.W. van Os, 'Giovanni di Paolo's Pizzicaiuolo Altarpiece,' The Art Bulletin, LIII, 1971, pp. 289-302.

H.B.J. Maginnis, 'Letter,' The Art Bulletin, LVII, 1975, pp. 608-609, where erroneously said to be a copy after a lost original.

F. Zeri and E.E. Gardner, Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Sienese and Central Italian Schools, New York, 1980, pp. 24-27.

D. Gallavotti Cavallero, Lo Spedale di Santa Maria della Scala in Siena: Vicenda di una committenza artistica, Pisa, 1985, p. 192.

J. Pope-Hennessy and L. Kanter, Italian Paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection, New York, 1987, pp. 130-131.

J. Pope-Hennessy, 'Giovanni di Paolo,' Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, XLVI, 1988, pp. 23-24.

L. Blauwkuip, in The Early Sienese Paintings in Holland, ed. H.W. van Os et al., Florence, 1989, pp. 73-74.

M. Boskovits and S. Padovani, Early Italian Painting, 1290-1470: The Thyssen Bornemisza Collection, London and New York, 1990, p. 17, 104-113.

K. Christiansen, 'Notes on "Painting in Renaissance Siena",' Burlington Magazine, CXXXII, March 1990, pp. 210-211.

H. van Os, Sienese Altarpieces, 1215-1460: Form, Content, Function, II, 1344-1460, Groningen, 1990, pp. 122, 124-125.

G. Freuler, 'Künder der wunderbaren Ding': Frühe italienische Malerei aus Sammlungen in der Schweiz und in Liechtenstein, exhibition catalong, Lugano, 1991, pp. 94-98, under no. 31, illustrated.

C. Merzenich, in Lust und Verlust, I, Kölner Sammler zwischen Trikolore und Preußenadler, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, 1995, pp. 305-311.

A. Chong and R. Krischel, in Lust und Verlust, I, Kölner Sammler zwischen Trikolore und Preußenadler, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, 1995, pp. 586-587, under no. 202c.

A. Ladis, 'Sources and Resources: The Lost Sketchbooks of Giovanni di Paolo,' in The Craft of Art: Originality and Industry in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque Workshop, ed. A. Ladis and C. Wood, Athens, GA, 1995, p. 85, note 31.

G. Damiani, in The Dictionary of Art, ed. J. Turner, XII, New York, 1996, pp. 715-716.

Lust und Verlust, II, Corpus-Band zu Kölner Gemäldesammlungen 1800-1860, ed. H. Kier and F. Günter Zehnder, exhibition catalogue, Cologne, 1998, pp. 537, 561, no. 121, illustrated.

M. Boskovits, Italian Paintings of the Fifteenth Century, Washington, 2003, p. 324.

A. De Marchi, La pala d'altare dal polittico alla pala quadra, Florence, 2012, p. 102.





Exhibited

Brussels, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Primitifs italiens de la Renaissance, 20 December 1921-?, part of no. 21.

New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Painting in Renaissance Siena: 1420-1500, 20 December 1988-19 March 1989, no. 38j.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Prized Possessions: European Paintings from Private Collections of Friends of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 17 June-16 August 1992, no. 59.
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