LOT DETAILS

Materials:

tempera and gold on panel

Measurements:

27.64 in. (70.20 cm.) (height) by 17.99 in. (45.70 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Condition:

unframed

Literature:

A. Smart, "A Duccio discovery: an early 'Madonna' prototype", Apollo , CXX, 272, 1984, pp. 226-237, as Duccio di Buoninsegna

Provenance:

with Camille Marie Rose Aprosio, Michael Hennessy, John Ryan, London; the Aprosio, Hennessy, and Ryan shares by inheritance to their heirs. Reported stolen in 1986. Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 30 January 2014, lot 5, as Florentine Painter, active in the ambit of Cimabue, c. 1285-1290 (withdrawn prior to sale). All title claims to the painting resolved by a settlement agreement approved and so ordered by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York on 11 May 2015. Legal title will pass to the buyer