LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Tempera on panel, partially gilt

Measurements:

31.89 in. (81.00 cm.) (height) by 24.41 in. (62.00 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

Exhibitions New York, Duveen Galleries: Loan Exhibition of important Early Italian Paintings in the Possession of notable American Collectors, 1924, p. 4, no. 14. - Montclair, New Jersey, Art Museum: Loan Exhibition of Paintings, Furniture and Art Objects from the Collection of Carl W. Hamilton, Dec.1925 - January 1926, no. 92. - New York, Duveen Galleries: Early Italian Paintings, 1926, no. 7 (W. Valentiner catalogue).

Literature:

R. van Marle: The Development of the Italian Schools of Painting, X, The Hague 1928, p. 408. - G. Gronau: Fra Filippo Lippi, in: Thieme/Becker, Leipzig 1929. - B. Berenson: Italian Pictures of the Renaissance, Oxford 1932, p. 288. - G. Pudelko: Per la datazione delle opere di fra Filippo Lippi, in: Rivista d´arte18, 1936, p. 68. - M. Pittaluga: Filippo Lippi, Florenz 1949, p. 214. - B. Berenson: Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Florentine School, 1963, vol. I, p. 113, vol. II, illus. 853. - K. Christiansen: New Light on the Early Work of Fra Filippo Lippi, Apollo 122, Nov. 1985, p. 340. - J. Ruda: Fra Filippo Lippi. Life and Work with a complete Catalogue, London 1993. p. 435, no. 44.

Provenance:

Provenance Rau collection for UNICEF