GIOVANNI DI SER GIOVANNI GUIDI, CALLED LO SCHEGGIA (SAN GIOVANNI VALDARNO, NEAR AREZZO 1406-1486 FLORENCE)

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Lot 27 | GIOVANNI DI SER GIOVANNI GUIDI, CALLED LO SCHEGGIA (SAN GIOVANNI VALDARNO, NEAR AREZZO 1406-1486 FLORENCE)
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GIOVANNI DI SER GIOVANNI GUIDI, CALLED LO SCHEGGIA (SAN GIOVANNI VALDARNO, NEAR AREZZO 1406-1486 FLORENCE)

The Story of Coriolanus: a cassone front

tempera and gold on panel

16 ¾ x 61 in. (42.5 x 155 cm.)





Provenance

Count Palmieri-Nuti, Siena, as 'Lorenzo di Pietro, called Vecchietta'.

Otto H. Kahn (1867-1934), Sutton Place, New York, by 1914, as 'from the Saraceni Palace, Siena', and by descent to Mrs. Otto Kahn; Christie's, London, 28 July 1939, lot 58, as 'Vecchietta', where acquired for 350 gns. by Sir Alec Martin on behalf of the following,

Sir Thomas Merton F.R.S., K.B.E. (1888-1969), Stubbings House, Maidenhead, and by descent.

Anonymous sale [Property from the Estate of a Gentleman]; Christie's, London, 7 December 2010, lot 7, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

F.J. Mather, Jr., 'Two Sienese Cassone Panels', in Art in America, II, 1914, pp. 397-401, fig. 1, as 'School of Lorenzo Vecchietta'.

P. Schubring, Cassoni: Truhen und Truhenbilder der italienischen Frührenaissance. Ein Beitrag zur Profanmalerei im Quatrrocento, Leipzig, 1915, p. 327, no. 458, as 'Lorenzo di Pietro, called Vecchietta'.

R. van Marle, The Development of the Italian Schools of Paintings, The Hague, XVI, 1937, p. 248, note 1, as 'School of Vecchietta'.

A. Scharf, A Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings from the Collection of Sir Thomas Merton, F.R.S. at Stubbings House, Maidenhead, London, 1950, pp. 20-21, no. VI, as 'Florentine School, ca. 1460'.

B. Fredericksen, The Cassone Paintings of Francesco di Giorgio, Los Angeles, 1969, p. 14, note 15, as 'The Master of Fucecchio'.

G. Hughes, Renaissance Cassoni, Masterpieces of Early Italian Art: Painted Marriage Chests, 1400-1550, London, 1997, p. 139, illustrated, as 'Lo Scheggia'.

L. Bellosi and M. Haines, Lo Scheggia, Florence and Siena, 1999, p. 86, as an 'opera di maturità' by Lo Scheggia.



Exhibited

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Italian Art and Britain, 2 January-6 March 1960, no. 324, as 'Florentine School, circa 1460'.

Florence, Museo Stibbert, Le Opere e I Giorni, 26 September 2015-6 January 2016, no. 4.5.

Paris, Musée Jacquemart-André, La Collection Alana: Chefs d’œuvre de la peinture italienne, 13 September 2019-20 January 2020, no. 38.
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